"You're right. He makes it terribly difficult to dislike him. How horribly insensitive of him," she said, laughing. "And I understand why the paranoia. As you said, it is only a few months, but also it's really most of your adult lives." Some of those lives had been incredibly short too. "I must be difficult, if not impossible to change it. Maybe with time things will get better? Or at least you might able to look at things with detachment. I don't know. I'm having problems with some similar issues so I'm not actually offering solutions as much as hoping that things will get better."
She smiled. "It's still some very impressive magic, very natural, which makes sense if it started as accidental bursts of magic. It's beautiful to watch." She thought that the images she'd seen of her with a wand out, fighting didn't do her justice. This woman with her trees looked much better. "Maybe the books will have a chance to include you and your new business. It feels peaceful and the opposite than what it was."
Delphine laughed. "Oh no, it's very much personal in this case. I know that when he looks at me, he sees my parents. I understand why he dislikes me, and I'm not trying to make him change his mind. I can say that I'm not like them, but I doubt that it will make him forget who they were," she said with a sigh. "And I would never put you in the middle of things, even if it's what I'm doing. If you think that it's best that I ask, I will do that. I'll be happy to accept any suggestions and I was not joking about that shop. I can afford it. I'll buy you the bloody thing if it's what he wants. I just need to know what will convince him and if it's in my power, I will give it to him."