<font color='#FF0000'>She sat stock still, frightened that the slightest movement might destroy the moment, might shake her enough to cause the dream to shatter. For surely, she had fallen asleep in her woe and was dreaming this. But no- if it had been a dream, his confession would have been eloquent. Though as it stood, the words satisfied, but still frustration nagged at her. If he acknowledged that they had love whould he let it exist between them, or would he demand that it be pushed away, for "businesses sake?" She has dared so much today- what was one more risk? "Then you should understand why I can't watch you push it away. Please, don't make us deny it any longer."</font>
<font color='#FF7F00'>He sighed. Such supression of a strong emotion would get them nowhere - it would be to their benefit to acknowledge the relationship and move on with their lives. Though his mind told him otherwise, his heart told him this was the right move - and that was enough to convince him, for some reason, though it had never ever been enough before. He smiled warmly and grinned down at her, his tailflame now dancing behind him with a red-hot intensity that it had never before achieved. "I won't." He lay beside her silently, snuggled up closely with a soft mhrring noise that seemed appropriate for the moment.</font>
<font color='#FF0000'>Maharet smiled with a happiness that touched her deep down in her core, and her soft expression seemed to light up her previously anguished face. The smaller 'dragon pressed her snout to his neck, curling up against him in a peacefull manner. She was undeniably glad that they had managed to work out these emotions, and though her mind still raged with questions and uncertainties, she laid it to rest for the time being. I was enough, for now, just to be near him, to feel him next to her and not have to wonder any longer whether he would ever see the feeling in her eyes. For now, she was content that everything, though not yet ideal, would somehow be okay.</font>
<font color='#FF7F00'>He smiled back at her - the warmth of her body against his felt good - he returned a smile to her and began paying gentle nuzzling attention to her neck. "I've waited a long time to speak with you on this. It's just never been easy for me, you see."</font>
<font color='#810541'>'Haret leaned against him. Now that she had his attentions, she planned to thuroughly enjoy them. She nuzzles him and licks around his maw, loving this new freedom betwen them. "How so Ollie?"</font>
