Brendan wished that he'd phrased his reply more gently or something as he watched Rafaela react. She seemed scared by the idea of asking the king for the report.
"He'll be your father-in-law, if we go through with this and actually get married?" he added in an attempt to present the king in a more approachable relationship.
His own mind caught on the words as he watched her flinch again. 'If we go through with this,' he still didn't know if he should even be entertaining the idea of actually marrying the half beyonder girl. He tried to focus his eyes on the details of the beyonder ship around him, but they kept wandering back to her.
She held her face in an artificially neutral expression as she pointed out, "I don't even have any of your personal contact information yet, let alone your family's."
"I can say the same thing," he replied quickly, as he realized that he wanted that connection. If he was going to make her his wife he needed it.
