[She doesn't quite anticipate the reaction she gets from him. Though, if she is honest with herself, part of her barely remembers what had been written. It had been a long day, after all.

Still, she opens her arms and cradles him.]

With how all of these trials have gone, I... was afraid. It wasn't as if I had done any of it accidentally. Some part of me had wanted to do it, and --

[She trails off. He's hard all of this already.]