"Facts that you were under no obligation to share."

He had brought his journey up willingly, as opposed to her finding out another way. Free to speak to one another candidly, as if time had made way for this circumstance. Hard not to feel both simultaneously hopeful and yet so terrified, that he might turn from her at any point. Her hand presses to her chest again, but she smiles, a little easier.

"I know that I yet knew so little of you. How you've grown into the strong person that you are. This... chance that we have to speak of such things. To value you for who you are... that means more to me than you could know."