This is our make or break it

To her demanded order he gave a stiff grunt. His body was his temple basically sort of thing. A demi god like him tended to wear their scars proudly. Or at least in his mind they did. Physical and mental. Both shaped a demigod and he intended to show it all as proudly as he could.

He watched her face as she took in his words next. How she watched him, how she studied his reactions and measured him. His own dual toned eyes measuring her. Gauging her reaction to him. Auds pointed to her waiting for the jingle of a laugh at him taking her serious. Waiting for her to tell him she had joked with him over the entire thing and she still abhorred the idea of marriage and him in the same sentence. The laugh didn't come though. Instead her next words were just as serious, measured carefully. The subject was not uncomfortable but both needed to know how the other expected to proceed it seemed.

She could of just ordered him to proceed or to forget any option of marrying her. but she didn't. She was interested in his wants. The soldier in him wanted him to ask her what she wanted but he doubted she would tell him. He also disliked the idea of forcing it for both of them. She dangled something else that was there to consider. Judalia. Loyalty was a keystone for the man. She was the future of Judalia, and that meant any children she had. That thought made his ears flatten. Children.... she would need them so the matriarchy would continue, but he didn't know what to do with a child. Did he want children? He couldn't answer that. His eyes fell. Could he see having children with her in the future? Yes. It was wrong, wasn't it?

His eyes lifted after a few moments of thought. Her hopes played in her eyes and he took another steady breath. He trusted her to make choices, but she had been so young he could see she may need council, and he had seen so much he had become cynical. He ignored her jest about Oath, knowing full well even she would know that wasn't his thing. Though Oath was his closest friend currently. "I want to want it Atreyu, baby steps though. We both have changed a lot I'm sure. If you want it, then we proceed, get to know the new us, and decide from there ok? I won't force you into something you won't love in the end. Marriage isn't something I will take lightly, it's forever, an all or nothing sort of thing." He set his paw on top of hers gently and gave her a deep breath before smiling. Marriage was a big thing and he refused to let someone he married walk away ever. There was a problem? You worked that shit out together.

He wouldn't measure his wife on beauty, position, power or anything. He would measure her on personality, heart, and what went on upstairs. Call him old fashioned but he wasn't one to just take the first pretty thing on his arm and then turn her over when she no longer appealed to him. Though he wasn't sure she would like the second part of his marital views. Man and wife, they were equals in everything. "We need ground rules if we are going to proceed though....." he was giving her an out. A chance to stop him with that statement.

"Atreyu" || "Azriel"