[What is there to forgive? What better place to rest than here, surrounded by love and trust and belonging? There's no way even the worst of nightmares could survive here; not with the two of them together. What better honor than to be that source of safety?

She only sighs and tangles in closer, head to head and heart to heart. And even as they relax into each other, the warmth of their joined hands does not fade, and the song of love plays on.]