Elann looked down at their hands as he pulled his from hers. She felt hurt by the action, but understood that he had gears turning in his head in regards to all she had said. 

"Okay, you've made your points very clear," she said softly. He could feel love in their bond, as well as compassion, but also sadness and loneliness. His extreme signs of anger had closed her up and she continued to pour tears down her cheeks. Noah had confused how he felt with what was on his heart. Elann wouldn't tell him everything she felt because it wasn't what was on her heart. It was times like these she was glad for that because he was acting like someone she didn't even want to know and she didn't want to crush him by telling him as such. It hurt, but it wasn't how she felt about him in her heart. Love was on her heart, he could feel it through their bond even at points in his rebuttal that she wanted to slap him in anger. Ultimately, she knew she couldn't stay quiet, she had to be the responsible one and fix it even though his anger would likely only tear her down further.

"You say for me to stop asking you to lie to me. Okay. I won't. I will trust that there is love behind your words, even though I don't feel it through our bond in these times. I will trust that your love is in your mind, that you are telling me things through a love for me despite the feelings I feel of anger, frustration, or annoyance."

"I am thankful that you haven't hit me," she said, as he was currently in the process of yelling at her, "I won't use your family as an example, because you're right. I do hardly know them. I'm sure they don't want to be human all the time, but in fairness, that wasn't my point. I never said that they nor you need to be human all the time. In fact, I encouraged both parts of you. I know you don't believe me when I say that I love the eagle side of you, but you are wrong. Me knowing you as a human, while you seem human in appearance, you've always acted much like an eagle. I have grown in the past year not only falling in love with the man you are, but with that eagle side. So when I've seen you while we were hunting, and you changed into that eagle, I did have love for that side. I adore your presence in the sky, your might as you tear into something. It reminds me of how you tear into the food I make you," she conceded a small laugh, though it was clear she was still pained and crying. "You may not understand my love for that part of you, but you have to listen to me. I am being honest with what is in my heart, and that is great love for your true side."

"I have thought, since knowing you were Kelvic, that there were two sides of you. But you say that there is a true side, and a false side of you. I understand I'm asking you to lean more into learning that false side and you don't like it. You aren't going to sugar coat that it is stupid, but you are going to try, because that makes me feel good. I appreciate that of you. It's hard to press and do something you don't want to do."

"You say that you didn't call me impatient. That's fine and true, you didn't utter those specific words. Maybe I did misunderstand when you said that it had only been a year in correlation to how much I was pushing you to change. I am sure you did want consideration for how much you changed. I'm sorry. I do recognize how much you have and like I said, I love it. I'm appreciative for every ounce you care to give me. I do love you as you are right now or I wouldn't have married you. Just as I want to better myself in your eyes by being more closer to your true self, I do however have a desire to grow more in love with you by you becoming like my true self. I think that's what people do when they love each other. They grow closer to one another until they are some like-minded person, much like Lanna and your mother were. I want that for us so badly I dream about it all the time."

"I admit, I can be annoying, confusing, and frustrating sometimes to you, and I never had in mind that you thought that of me all the time. I understand your point that everyone can frustrate, annoy, and confuse, nor am I saying that I have never felt frustration. You know I have, you've felt it in me before. Like I said, I felt you were titling me as being those things right now as an insult, because I could feel those emotions within you right then. When anyone else calls me annoying and I can tell they are feeling it inside of themselves and hear it on the words they tell me - such as when you said how little you liked our conversation - then naturally I will feel insulted. With you, I know in my mind that you aren't insulting me, that you are just trying to speak what is on your mind, but in my heart, it still hurts. It can be hard sometimes for the two to work together because I have an entire life around me that acts differently from you." She still just couldn't believe how much difference there was between Aimee and Noah in understanding this. "I'm sorry for my failure in doing this."

"I accept your apology that it wasn't your intention to hurt me. My opinion on my words differs from yours and it is what it is. I feel that I am responsible for my words within reason. As I speak harshly to someone, I expect that person to feel assaulted by my words. I am responsible for that assault on their person. I speak kindly, yet honestly, because I don't want to be responsible for making you or anyone else feel bad unnessesarily. Right now you feel stressed and angry at my words, despite my doing everything I can to stop you from feeling that way. I am not saying that in my opinion I should feel responsible for that that I could control what you feel. If I however intentionally spoke harshly with you and you then felt bad, yes, I would feel bad because I made you feel that way. It is how most people I know work, and I won't change that. I will however try to understand how you work and though it's out of what I know as normal, I want you to understand that I do understand why you say what you say and regardless of how I feel toward it, I do know you don't intend me harm."

"I also don't expect your family to all love me. I understand that. My problem was with the timing of which you said it. I had my reasons for feeling that way, but once again...it was a disconnect from how my mind and heart are working with your words. I have never intended to hurt you, and if my words have, I apologize...sincerely. I love you. I don't think it's ridiculous to never seek to hurt the one you love and I haven't ever intentionally spoken to hurt you."

Recalling what he said, and the hurtful way he said it, she felt like she was arguing with a ten year old, which was probably more accurate than she realized. It was a hard lump to swallow and she just continued with her apology.

"You are also right, we did promise, and I will honor that promise, to tell you what is on my heart, just as I did here. I expect you to get frustrated, annoyed, and confused at the subject I brought up. It wasn't an easy subject, which you voiced clearly that you didn't like it. I am sorry for not listening to you, for failing to hear and only hearing what sounded bad in what you said. It's all my fault."

Just because she had apologized didn't mean she didn't still feel the hurt from his anger, from his emotions sent through the bond every time they fought. She had sincerely tried to repair their relationship, to repair the conversation, and if he sought to continue in his anger, she likely couldn't continue with him she thought, yet tried desperately to ignore such feelings and thoughts. His continued anger would scar her deeply; that she knew for a fact.