<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Cameron slid his arm around her waist -- hesitant, because it was beyond improper.  He'd never been reluctant to do it when she was a child... but the waist beneath his arm now had a curve to it that was new and dangerous.  "Bright heart, there is nowhere that I would rather be -- and no one I would rather be with."  He said it simply, without any of the flowery court language -- merely spoke from the heart.  "I can never be grateful for the events which brought me home -- but I also cannot regret that I have returned to your side."  Where he belonged.</span></span>