Being with Viserys has become a routine, a comfort for me. His presence lit up my day and when we were seperated I itched to get back to him. He was simultaneously my best friend and something else. Something far more dear than a friend was, even if he was not my imrpint. Who needed one of those anyways? I meander beside him, pausing to lift my nose to the breeze and close my eyes as I sort through scents, blinking wide when he speaks to me. I grin then, fluffing my tail up over my back in response to his words, melting beneath his words. "Do you think I could fly if I so chose?" I jest with him, leaping into the air and nimbly landing before flouncing forward and flicking my tail into his face, followed by a coy laugh.

Then I fell back to his side once more, brushing against him, noting out of the corner of my eyes how his own widened. I loved those moments when his breath caught and my own heart stuttered knowing that I was the cause of it. It wasn't like I didn't know how he felt about me, the same as I felt about him. We just hadn't given words to the emotions, content for the time to live life as we had been. He saved me from grief and taught me new views. A challenge that I was eager to take up with him every day.

Ankh.

My very name on his lips makes me pause, canting my head to the side as I look at him with a wide open expression. He looks at me then away and I follow his gaze up to the doves. One ear flicks back at his idea of their love, not sure what to think on it before our gazes meet. Love.

It strikes me hard - I had felt it, known it, but hadn't given voice to the word. Now that it was out there I foudn my heart pausing and slamming. He stammers, as he does when he is nervous, and I continue to stare at him in open mouthed wonder, but then I blink. Hard. Because my eyes seem to have something in them that feels an awful lot like tears. "You already do," I spit out, not quite as eloquently as I am used to but overcome with emotion. "I do. I.... love you. Just like those birds, just like my parents and yours. I love you with all I have." I want to ask if that is good enough because I am floundering, unable to say anything else, and I feel lost but also like I am soaring.

Because Viserys has just set a boundary. And I just stepped with him.

"Does that mean... do you... are we..?"