Whispering to her, his voice soft but Lenally can hear the desires in him straining his own self control. "You've never had someone see you as a person have you?" Something of his tone reminds her of someone who has walked a strange path to get where he is now. In the wan twilight of the room, she can see lines in his features that would be invisible anywhere else, he places enormous pressures on his actions, he has stepped outside of the bounds of the acceptable, but yet he has never lost the core of who he is. His pain now just enhances his features, bringing to light what only a few decades would have, the cunning of a master thief, the cold drive that only an assassin could surpass, and the determination of one who was born to lead hides yet behind the mask of the playboy and womanizer she has heard spoken of.<br/><br/>Hearing Lenally request to rest, she can feel him nod lightly, as he gently shifts and rolls her over onto her side. "You're right, the rest will help you heal, I shouldn't have accosted you as I did," he takes a deep bow before her in apology, before pulling the covers over her and tucking her in, "May your dreams be ambrosia for your soul, wings for your heart, and peace for your mind," then places a feathery light kiss upon her forehead and each eye that closes, before a slow one full of an emotion few would imagine him capable of before he starts towards hidden exit.<br/><br/>Gerrard strides back towards the secret entrance with a strange starkness inside knowing that he doesn't want to leave, but he comments quietly as he walks away, "Remember, royals like us never truly get to follow our hearts except in our escapes from our gilded cages, but when the heart and the duty are entwined to but a single purpose all the world must move aside lest they be trampled underfoot never to see the glory of what will be."<br/><br/>Before he closes the secret, he spares one last glance back at her, one he knows he should not take. Lenally watching him walk away can see the wan light reflecting back from his eyes, like twin emeralds in the darkness of the night.