If anything, having her close made it seem even harder to speak to her. He had watched her as she devoured down her food, watched how her throat bobbed as she swallowed, and watched how she chewed on the tender meat.
It made a cold chill run through him.
Now, however, standing before her, under the moon and the light burning from the fire beside them, he found he didn't know what to say, or how to start precisely. It was as though he had been rendered speechless.
Staring at her with her wild wave of ginger hair flowing in the cold night air, and her glowing green eyes made his heart did a double catch, and tighten at the same time. What unnerved him even more was having her staring right into his eyes, with as much confidence as she could.
She was ethereal.
"You said you wanted to ta
