Nisa didn't comment or attempt to keep the others in their company. It was rare to have time alone with Aslan and she'd keep it until they returned home unless he made another excuse to leave.

When be grabbed her sleeve, she stopped and looked at him. She was silent for a moment, her mind suspicious and believing.

"You know I'd never hurt you." She said at last and then continued to walk. True, that didn't count all the friends and loved ones who'd been killed or abandoned him due to her choices. Physically she wouldn't hurt him. And things she'd almost said had danced on her tongue but was silenced. She didn't try to hurt him anyway.

"Are you still going to try to marry me off again?" She was certain the moment she was out of his life, he'd suddenly find the time to be home more.