They stayed in each other's arms in quiet, only her low sobbing and the silence of the night could be heard. Yet when she broke the embrace he still felt it was too soon. The desire to console and protect her was still burning inside him.
The moonlight shone on her tears as she brushed them from her wet face. "I'm sorry, it won't happen again."
"There is no need to be sorry, we are but humans," he answered, wanting to take her in his arms again, to tell her that he will wipe away all her tears until only smiles could form on her beautiful face.
But he didn't. Magnus clenched his first in frustration of the battle inside him. A battle between his wanting and his rationality. The latter won that time and he kept his spot while Ivy put her arms around her and looked intently at the forest to his right.