"You...you kept it?" she said, looking at her, before smiling as she looked at Geri. "I thought you must have thrown it away after I..." she stopped, grabbing the bowl and being sick, only continuing once she was sure her stomach had settled. "You should know...I was told, if I wished to love one of my own kind, I had to choose between a right to sit on the throne and being with you. It wasn't a contest, I couldn't bear to spend a life without you, and I don't want the throne anyway."