<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Cameron stilled his hand momentarily, though he resumed the stroking motion a moment later.  "It seems unfair to continue to burden you with my grief, knowing that you suffer the same." <br/>
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Though... that was only part of what weighed on him.<br/>
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He was silent several long moments.  "I worry that I have only added to your burden.  Become one more person you love that you will mourn.  I am older than you, dear heart -- and while my position as Hand does not put me in direct combat... I am still a Knight.  I fear that I will be forced to leave you involuntarily and -- would it not be kinder for you to find someone safe?"</span></span>