He smiled. He wasn’t sure he liked being so vulnerable, but it didn’t matter anymore. His life had changed in the last few days. In some ways it was for the worst, but now, in a lot of ways it was for the better. He didn’t pull away his hand, and he didn’t think any more about barriers, or anything of the like. He accepted her for who she was, and if she could still be married to him after all she had been through (most of it at his expense), then they might be able to make a marriage work.
“No,” he agreed. “Life never is ideal… it never quite turns out the way you expect, but in several ways that element of surprise, is what makes life worth living in the first place. I’ve never been one to let me feelings out, and I’ve never been one to be vulnerable, but sometimes things change out of necessity. I’m in a new realm, and I think this might serve for redemption, or maybe it is punishment. Either way I’m going to make the most out of it. I’m assuming you’ll be staying?”
He paused. “We have a few automobiles here, I haven’t driven because I don’t know how, but I imagine you do? You can use that to go to work I suppose. I’ll have to have you teach my proper Earth etiquette anyways, if I offend my servants, I can’t imagine what damage I would do around real people.”