[ She finds that her nature must be more to consider such possibilities. Rather, not her nature, but her fear. After so many lives without him, and some where she had lost him prematurely, and one where they did not have the chance to be together? That fear of losing him once more somehow always finds its way crawling back into her heart. It feels as if a dull knife pressing into an already established wound, waiting, and biding its time. She cannot bring herself to ask if he feels something of the same. Perhaps the feeling is entirely of her own, and that was what drove her to suggest they bind themselves together all those ages ago.

Had he willingly agreed, or had she pressed him into it...? ]

I... I can hide my soulstone. [ Her voice drops to hushed tones as it does with these matters. ] A-and I can refrain from using the magick that Master Matoya taught me... but, if I am to heal someone else ... I'm not... I'm not certain people would turn the eye away from something that... that is not native to Ishgard...

[ Even if it is rather obvious and known she is not of Ishgard.

The head Astrologian is aware hee healing arts are not native to faith or teachings of Ishgard. He himself is not native, instead hailing from Old Sharlayan. Perhaps that is why he is more willing go help aid her. He speaks often of how close minded the Ishgardians are, but she finds he too is rather close minded in certain things. An arrogance is there that she dies not see often in others.

She, instead, answers his question with her own: ] ...please?

[ Lantaa remainsnunsure as to why she desires this so very much. Perhaps it is lingering desires from the euphoria, she wonders at first. Though the idea seems to be reaching. The truth is probably far more simple: she wishes to remain in this way as a pair would. ]