"Because you're you. You are beautiful. Perhaps not to everyone, but you are to me." Rimeera replied calmly, staring into the woods, patient and simply...waiting. Trying not to push. She took a deep breath, then looked over at her, smiling as she added. "And I won't leave. I'm going to help Ameiko cross the Crown of the World and get her throne. If you stay here, I'll come back for you. If I have to be monogamous, I'll end my other relationships. If it takes a century of wooing you, that's what I'll do. Shalelu. It isn't what you say. It's what you do. It's who you<em>are</em>that I love. If you need time, I'll wait. If you need me to go take the Test of the Starstone...well, I'll go and give it my best. I promise you, though...I am not the man who ignored you. And I will follow you for as long as it takes."