[ She has not had many chances to just look at him and both take in his appearance and commit it to memory, but whenever she does, she knows that she likes what she sees. Oh, she will never like seeing his crystal parts, but there is something striking about his red eyes and the way his hair seems to swirl between red and white. Part of her wishes to reach for that hair and touch it, but she wonders if that is too forward, even for her.

For the moment, she just listens as he speaks, also noting how she very much likes the sound of his voice. It is calming and soothing, and she likes how words sound when he says them. ]

Well, I wondered, and I had a suspicion, but I thought that I must have been wrong.

[ And truthfully, so much has happened since they first came upon the Crystal Tower that some of the memories have been obscured by time, but she distinctly remembers him entering the Tower and the sight of the doors closing, blocking him from view. It seemed wrong to her at the time, even though she knew why he had chosen to do so. ]

I still don't like it, and I wish that I could fix it... Fix you.

[ Because she fears what will happen if the crystallization takes him over completely. ]

If I start, I might not ever stop. [ She grins a wry sort of grin, but she knows there is an element of truth to her words as well. She has been told that she often talks far too much. ]