Emotionally she was far past ready. If it had been possible she wouldn't have waited at all, but her body had not given her a choice. It wasn't that she ever doubted how much he loved her. There was just something that bonded them together more tightly when they could echo the joining of their hearts with the joining of their bodies.

"I am." She touched her cheek to his shoulder. "I miss it. I miss... us." The couple they had been before disaster and exile.

"If you're not well enough, though--"