[ Perhaps the memories of past lives hinder her more than aid her. While she may easily recall the emotions and love from those times? A sense of fear and panic also accompanies them. The feelings that speak to the fact she may very well lose him as she has before. Perhaps it keeps her from living life to the fullest in this incarnation, or, perhaps it merely feeds into the trauma and fear she has already lived in this life.

He leans into her touch and Lantaa acts accordingly. She moves to stand, but only so she might sit in his lap. Her arms drape once more around his shoulders, offering him to lean against her so she might give him any comfort he may need. She guides him to rest his head on her shoulder, gently brushing her cheek against the side of his head. ]

Because, I trust you with my life now and always. [ She knows the answer will hardly suffice for him. ] You have fed from me twice, and have stopped yourself when needed both times. You have never gone to bite my neck when we are ...w-well, intimate, o-or simply in bed with one another. I know you will not. Even when those darker instincts take hold, you wouldn't.

[ Lantaa tilts her head so her lips are once more beside his ear. ] I love you as both the man you are and the creature they turned you into. Even if you had moved further, I cannot imagine you would have bitten me... because I doubt you would wish to be alone. Especially as a vampire.

[ She can only imagine what his expression--even as a vampire--would be when he realized that he had bitten the woman he loved. It is something she refuses to allow to happen, but also something she knows will not happen as neither side of him would wish her dead. Especially by his own hand. ]

I believe only you can decide that, Aymeric.