He wouldn't meet her eyes. Yet his words were the ones she had wanted him to believe and say for some time now. Dawn wanted him to know who she was beyond the fact that she was more then just what her past lives gave her. What about the experiences of her mortal life? What about her personality, his Caer struck her as someone who was always sweet and easy to please, who by his attitudes, went meekly with what he desired. Dawn wasn't like that, not really. She knew she was a bit of a smart ass, with a very American sense of humor and wit, a reporter who pieced together politics and read people. A girl who had grown up in the wilds of Maine, who had gone to the big city of New York by herself for college. A girl who had dreamed of him for over ten years; but didn't really know him.<br/><br/>All of this was confusing, but he, he was the most confusing of it all. Instead of feeling the comfort and safety she had when he had been in her dreams she was on edge, wary and frustrated. Part of the blond wanted to scream at the assembled mass of fae. They spoke of being free, of letting themselves be true to what they were born to be. But they weren't, they put on masks and danced to tunes that weren't true to themselves or the Goddess.<br/><br/>It was no wonder Danu wanted a high king and queen. She wanted her people back to what they were suppose to be. And it made Dawn sad that perhaps only a mortal raised female could see just how fake they were being about themselves as they tried to thrust her into their world. Her true world.<br/><br/>Her thoughts jerked when he kissed her cheek and then he pulled away, her eyes followed Connal, unable to keep the flash of pain as he bowed and left her. Alone, again. Unwanted, again. What was it about her that sent males fleeing away from her. The Unseelie handmaiden had approached Roarke, Connal was beside Kenzy.<br/><br/>Yet the break of her guard made it so that other males, Seelie and Unseelie alike moved forward to talk to her. She smiled and chatted, using her savy charm to enthrall those around her, but not really meaning to. All she wanted to do was leave.