He tilted his head and brought one of his hands up to set on her cheek, "They were painfully so. And I'd very much like to make up for lost time, but I don't want you to feel like you owe me anything. I did all this to make you smile Persephone, and because you asked. I want you to be comfortable and choose." Above all things he was determined to be as little as his brothers as he could manage. Gently he brushed her hair from her eyes.