This is of the first time Itzal told Meera he loved her. There he was, new to the area, this mysterious scared stranger and an unmatched fighter confessing that he'd fallen for the calm, steel cored healer who hadn't had a kind word said to her most of her life. She just about ran away in terror. But she'd fallen enough in return that she stayed.
(Timer's wrong. I left it open for a long time.)







