Jim listened and opened his mouth to respond but after rifling through his pockets for a moment he sat down side her and took her hand again. "Karren can't even walk in a straight line right now, let alone break the world. The poor girl has to use a cane and can't go anywhere near the bridge. You can help her, maybe teach her to fight and defend herself. She needs to build some muscle, you can help with that. Whisperia and the family have two infants and will soon have an egg to care for and Karren to keep an eye on. Sure there's no more wars going on, but there's nothing to say you can't help out." He rolled his eyes when she mentioned him and slid a ring onto her finger. "Well, you can start by being my wife. Officially." The ring was little more than a simple steel band but the rough finish and illegible engraving said it was handmade. "Sure, you can't cook, clean, do laundry, or have children. But I enjoy cooking, we live in a jungle so there's going to be dirt everywhere, we don't have any clothes to wash and what we do wear Kuro and Azu take care of. As for children... eh, even if you could give me children I wouldn't ask you to. You don't want them, and do two old, too ornery to die, bastards like us really need to reproduce? So, what can you do? You stand up for me, you give me a reason to live, you give me someone to cook for, and to love... and you fuck like a succubus. So, sure, you're not perfect and there's things you can't do. But who is?" He cupped her chin and made her look up at him. "So how about you live to make me happy and complete, and I'll live to do the same thing for you. We can be... I dunno, two parts of one poorly designed sword. Like Varian's Sharla... llama... whatever."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>