Too cute for my toes

He was baffled by her misunderstanding. It had to be a show. Surely she knew what he was talking about. As a beast of chaos this had to be part of her plan to sow strife because even stones knew of the need for balance. Aku's expression turned quizzical as he tried to understand her. "I don't love her and she doesn't love me. Love comes later." That was just how it was. Everyone knew that. Things were complicated by Akna's Jarvela background and maybe that would make loving one another difficult, but they had a duty to their peoples to be bound by matrimony. How else would there be peace?

"I suppose..." he mused, not at all hurt by the spirit's harsh words. "I can't say I have ever had a real kiss. But I do not need your pity. A bird cast into the deep would likely think himself in hell and so too would a fish forced to writhe around on land. We are different, are we not, and we have different lots in life." This was a strange conversation and one he certainly hadn't expected to have with a spirit beside a river of fire. But that, as he was growing accustomed, was Boreas.