<em>The little cleric laughs softly and shakes her head.<br/><br/>"It's okay... it's not something you can control. Or, at least, how we feel about others isn't. If I could love her back completely and wholeheartedly, the way she wants... the way she needs to be loved, I would. But I can't, just by wanting to. And... she knows. Sort of. At the least, she's guessed, by now, but because I haven't outright said it, she still has that hope, and I'm not sure what it would do to her if I took that hope away."</em>