Flynn laughs. "Not terribly subtle, are you?" he says. "Well, I guess I wasn't really ready to say good-bye to Tephra. And I figured: How many chances do you have in your life to find love? Especially the kind of love that could literally last forever?"
He hedges a bit: "I suppose what really drew me here was the way Tephra described the place as being so full of magic. That's always been a fantasy of mine. It feels like anything can happen; anyone can be anything. And when I had the chance, I knew I had to take it."
You shift uncomfortably. The question is just sitting there, right below the surface: Do you want to go home? Do you regret coming here? But what benefit would there be to saying it out loud? Maybe it's not fair to ask him to decide that right now.