"But I did run away," Dana reminded him.
"No. You merely needed a moment to absorb the shock of what you saw. But you did come back with me today." He smiled. "For that, I thank-you, Dana."
"You see things so much differently than I do," she said.
"But you see them now?"
"Yes, I think I do."
"She haunts me no more, my love" he said. "Oh, her memory I cannot banish from me. But the power she had over me, that obsessive darkness, that brooding that kept me here for so many years, that kept me from making a new life – that is gone. I know that as surely, as I know that you love me still. I don't ask for answers now, or commitments, or even making love. I only ask that you consider what I've said, and how it feels to you in your soul."
Lucien stopped speaking. Silence engulfing them both
