He smiled at her response, then frowned, as she denied him. "No? You could just say that your scouting stumbled across me in the ruins. We can keep this little... rendezvous a secret," he said. "<em>Our</em>little secret," he added, giving her a gentle peck as he did.<br/><br/>If she insisted on turning him down, he sighed. "Very well... I shall pine endlessly for you, then, until you return to me," he promised, a smile dancing across his lips and eyes, once more.