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He looked awkward, “it wasn’t a serious thought. Just sometimes I would have a moment of doubt.” He explained and you had to admit that that did match up with what you had seen.

“If I had really thought for a second you,” he paused, still bashful even now. “Had not wanted me then I would have stopped.”

Looking at him as he spoke, the firelight casting his scared face into soft relief as he tried to explain himself. You find it hard to believe that you are looking at the same man who so efficiently killed those bandits. In this light he looks almost like a nervous boy, the furtive glances he kept on giving you somehow made your heart beat faster in your chest.

You were slowly becoming aware of how close you sat to each other,