"I was killed, you know. Before I found myself here." I can keep my voice level when I say this now, here with them; it is only a fact, a thing that happened. "That I am here with you at all is nothing short of a miracle, and that's without even bringing different times, and dragons into it. My life is something that isn't done. What we're proposing now seems so small in the face of that, but important."

I let John's comment about children go without comment. I may have promised him, but that was separate from this.

"If I would make you happy,both of you, then I want to."