<span style="font-style: italic">"Thank you. And not just for the fish.... but for staying here when you could easily leave..."</span>He smiled down at her, he had noticed her eyes lingering on his exposed abdomen, but he did not want to do anything that would make her look away. "Your welcome, Clairissa." speaking her name felt right, he liked the sound of it. He was still smiling down at her even when her voice turned serious and she put a stern look on her face<span style="font-style: italic">"Don't get used to this softness I'm showing now, becasue as soon as I'm feeling at my best again. I'm going right back to my usual self."</span>When she turned a full blown smile his way to show that she was he could not help but but give her his most charming smile. "You only say that because you want to see me try my hardest to charm you."<br/><br/>His smile was still on his face when he knelt back down next to her offering her his hand. "I made you a promise last night, but I think you need to hear now and know that a dragon cannot go back on his promise," he had been charming up to this point, then he turned a little teasing,"otherwise we are so over come with guilt that we go super crazy," His eyes were sparkling with the joke, "not that we are completely sane." This is when he became serious once again, his voice sounding true and his eyes reassuring her how sincere he was being at that moment. "I promise to never leave you, even when or if we make it back to the surface, your going to have a really hard time getting rid of me," at that he placed a small kiss on the back of her hand.