She seemed to know this mattered, as if it was written somewhere in her bones. On one hand, she wanted this, the intimacy between them seemed almost inevitable, but it seemed like everything in her life had horrible consequences that took those she loved from her.  Eira looked up at him and let out a slow sigh and then nodded.  She had spent so many of the last few months feeling trapped, trapped in the castle in the mountains, trapped here with Bennington.  She did not want this to feel like that.<br/><br/>And yet, he could have viewed it the same way...And he seemed eager.  Hungry even.  Eira kissed him again, urging him onward. She could not spend her life trying to avoid every negative consequence, it would lead her to be paralyzed with fear and that was not a life worth living.  She moved beneath him, pressing her body to his and trying to allow for her worries to slip away in the heat between them.  "Then I suppose we best not betray each other, yes?"  She said with heated breath.<br/><br/>Her eyes searched up into his.  He was difficult to read, but she was not sure if that was due to the life he had lived or due to the fact that he did not feel grounded in the person he had become.  Truth be told, she was not sure she felt grounded.  She was not the girl she had been months ago when her father took her into the mountains.  She was not even the woman she believed herself to be a few days ago.