She smiles, lovingly and sincere. And though the tears continue to slide down her cheeks, she is quite sober as she continues.

"I knew a man who once said he loved me, and I knew it wasn't true. I could see it that he believed it, but it wasn't real love. Not like Jaheira and Khalid had. He didn't love me, but how is made him feel. How I made him look."

She caresses his cheek, ghosts hey fingers across his lower lip, admiring, amazed he's really hers.

"You look at me and you see me. You see Syeira. I think I loved you, at least a little, from the moment we met. Just for that alone. I could never doubt you."