"Shut your estupido mouth." Sympathy hid her shock of his words behind a frown. "It could not be so. How would the year change like this? How could it be that and I am still alive? I am no immortal. I will die when my time comes, just as everyone else."
Not once in her life had she ever thought about the future in such terms. It was unavoidable that it would happen, just as it was unavoidable that she would not be around to see it. If this man was right, then she had lived for far too long. Past any right she had to.
"The best way to find things out is to clear the mind. The best way to empty it is to fill it with something it cannot ignore. It is your loss, miho, the love of a pirate, however temporary, is a love that will not be forgotten."
She wouldn't beg. She wasn't that sort. If Dean wasn't game, then so be it.
"You are so smart, you tell me what is going on, then."