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"'It is rather hard for me to remember to be angry with people who are so kind.'" (125-126)

Love that Josette is completely won over because Keldan made a nice home for her in a nice field by the ocean and was so gentle with her and made her a giant breakfast and nice furniture. (And didn't care that she broke all the gifts he gave her previously).

Props for her getting caught in her lie so quickly, even if she does not realize it yet. I expected the lie to get drug out instead of being brought up this quickly and the full truth of it having to be faced.

....the claim holds even if they are already married.

"They were too fragile. Too rare and precious, like delicate blooms he could hold in his hands for only an instant of time. He preferred the occasional liaisons he enjoyed with Asgard women, which lasted however long he and the lady might wish."

"And when he lost her, as well, the emptiness inside him had widened and deepened, and his life was all the darker for having known even a brief touch of the sun...he had learned his lesson: it was best not to hope, not to dream of a life different from the one the gods had given him. Most of the time it was not even a struggle anymore."

"And for a time, he had known hope. Had allowed himself to believe that this time, it would be different. That she would heal the emptiness inside that had been with him since he was a boy."

"Maeve, whose laughter had brightened his life like the sun. She had been so entranced by the moonlit waterfall...his cheerful lass had been happy to leave behind her life of poverty...had quickly fallen in love with Asgard's beauty...and with him."

"his movements gentle, almost tentative, as if he feared that his delicate, fawn-eyed beauty might break."

"By great Thor's bearded goats,"