"Now you're just being stubborn," she said with a huff and she pushed him to accent the point, but not too hard. Just enough to nudge him. "You can tell yourself if it makes it easier, but it's not true. And we don't know how to make you understand or believe us. It's hard when you won't let us. I want to get in there. I want you to let me love you."
She was growing warm again. The comforting warmth of spring emanated off her body, engulfing the both of them, canceling out the cold that had been in the nook. She wasn't doing it consciously, but it was happening. "I don't know what happened, but maybe when you calm down you two can have a better talk? And don't forget, I was forced into the light six months of the year, but I always returned to all of you below. In the dark. My home." If she could give him some hope, she wanted to.
"I know I wasn't too jazzed about it at first, but to be fair, I couldn't come and go as I please. I would have spent much more time with you all as I had before mom discovered our secret," she said with a sigh. "Pheme wouldn't be with you if she didn't know everything that came with it, right?"