Thad laughed good naturally at her response.<span style="color: #FFFF80">"Mayhap in that reincarnation I would be born again as well as a proper gentleman,"</span>he teased lightly. Knowing she would get a laugh out of that. For he was after all a very typical boy who often got dirty and who really wasn't all prime and proper. He was not a gentleman, but a simpleman. A man who knew what he wanted, even if it was unreachable.<br/><br/>Thad sobered up almost instantly at her last words in response to his own declaration. A small half smile gracing his features.<span style="color: #FFFF80">"I do life for you,"</span>he responded, his words so low he doubted she would have understood them. Then again she didn't need to, she knew already and as she spoke next dread grew as he knew what was coming. Silently he cursed the flow of time and culture. He looked away for a second so she wouldn't  see the blatant pain in his eyes at the knowledge that he must let her go. That he must now accept that she will marry, who her parents chose. It was the way of things in their world after all.<br/><br/>He sighed lightly and turned to meet her gaze once more.<span style="color: #FFFF80">"Speak freely Cat, don't spare my feelings in this, I need to know the whole truth,"</span>his words were soft. Gentle. He didn't mean them to be anything more then the honest truth. He needed her to tell him exactly what was going on. Every detail even if it was that she had found another love, a man she could be with. He doubted this very much, but he needed to hear her say it. His laughter died and his face was somber. There was no more teasing light in his eyes, for there was nothing about this conversation that anyway funny. This was serious and Thad knew how to be serious. Only around her was he ever this playful. Around everyone else he was the awkward subservient teenager who kept to the shadows and liked to pretend he was invisible.