"I know you've been through things darker then the fold, Inej, but never say never," he murmurs softly. There's a firmness to his tones born of nerves that he rarely shows but there's a gentleness as well. He knows she means it but that doesn't mean he is certain what is part of him is something she should forever have to take on as he does.

"You never know what might change and not anyone could fault you that." Least of all the man that never thought he could have this.

"That said, I am planning to hold you to those words and therefor never let you go," he adds primly."