<span style="color: #0059b3">"why are you so grumpy all of a sudden?"</span>she looked at Iron and slowly leaned up to kiss her gently.<span style="color: #0059b3"> "i love you too."</span><br/><br/>Rachel frowned and then laughed and shook her head.<span style="color: #0000ff">"oh don't even. you brought up getting his blessing to marry you, i told you i already had it and you went on and on about how that was a different Karrie so i had to ask again and here i am doing as you asked. i am going to get drunk and kick him in the shin for giving everyone such short notice... i didn't have time to even trade for a gift let alone make one by hand as is proper."</span>she stuck her tongue out right back and smiled to her before she looked at Ras and smiled.<span style="color: #0000ff">"oh? and here i was thinking twenty cords of fire wood, five large game animals dressed and ready for butchering, twenty game birds plucked and gutted, fifty smoked fish, a dozen tanned animal hides and two riding raptors. but by all means one cold beer done and done."</span>she reached over to touch his glass, thick frost building on the glass and the beer itself chilled to perfection and she grinned.<span style="color: #0000ff">"for the record if you did deem me unworthy of your daughter or your family i would accept that given my past... i would be heartbroken and miserable but i would never defy a merciful and kind god who has already given me so much."</span>she bit her lip after a moment and shook her head.<span style="color: #0000ff">"immortal or not i know that a Human woman becomes infertile at around fifty years of age and she is already twenty-nine years old. i have no objection to twenty children in one hundred years, we could space them out and raise them with all the proper care and attention but as we only have about twenty years that number would be disastrous if not flat out impossible." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>