Re: Tergiversate
At least they could share a laugh, Thor thought as he joined in on her particularly dark chuckle. "That's not the sort of thing you expect to hear in your marriage," the Allfather added with his own slightly cheeky smile in understanding that Eva wasn't being completely serious.
"What I said before," he started from the much better place than he'd been yesterday. "Now that I feel like I can better articulate my feelings," mature sentence - nailed it. Boom. "I don't want you to leave," no kingly order, just facts. "You've become the center of my universe. The mother to my children, the queen of our people," Our, not his or hers. Theirs. "Even if you never spoke to me again, I'd want you here," Thor admitted openly. "But I will not try to force you into this marriage when I know your heart belongs to another," he added more somberly. "Is it too late to have it both ways?" he wondered aloud. "I didn't ask you to marry me because of obligation," Thor said after a moment. "You became my best hope, then my best friend, then the mother of our son. I'd hoped that would have carried us through," he told her with a small smirk of fondness.