We reach the last town we will stop at while the sun is setting. It's been a week since we left. We place our rings on our fingers as we slide off the horse. "I should have at least made you look attractive in your disguise." I grumble.

"Well, at least you won't like my disguised look over my normal look." He chuckles. "Do you like my real face, Mariposa?" He teases and I hush him as we enter the town.

"Even if I did, it wouldn't matter much." I grumbled as I glared at him. I pushed my blonde hair out of my face. We walked through the town. I paid a stable boy to tie up Hazel and then we entered the inn.

"One room, please." Seth said. He smiled.

"Sure." The man turned and smiled. "Oh! Are you two on your honeymoon?" Without missing a beat Seth wrapped an arm around me and pulled me to his side.

"Yes we are!" He grinned. "Well, really, we have been wed for quite some time but she got pregnant before we could go on a honeymoon." The men laughed.

"Well, you worked quickly, didn't you?" The older man guffawed a laugh as he grabbed us a key to a room. "Are you aiming for a big family?"

"Of course." Seth smiles with his disguised face and he looks down at me. I smile too in what I hope to be a reassuring smile. "We have lots of land for a big family." He laughs again and the two men smile at each other.

"Well, here is your key, sir." The older man smiles. "I hope the two of you have a lovely night." The older man winks at me and my skin prickles.

"We will." Seth encourages the older man with a smile. I started to flush as I caught on to what they meant. "Thank you, sir." Then we headed up the stairs. We reached our room and quickly blocked off every entrance and exit and covered the windows before we took our rings off.

"You know, I think I do like your real face a lot more." I placed the baby in the padded basket I had brought to be her bed. I plopped down on the bed and worked my boots off of my feet. I undid the ponytail that I had pulled my hair into earlier. My light silver hair fell around me in straight sheets.

"You do, now?" He teases and I blush a little. "You should bathe first." He offers like polite gentlemen should.

"No, that's ok. I would rather you bathe first." He nods and walks into the bathing chamber with a change of clothes. I pull out my new notebook and my pen. The notebook that Seth had bought me still made me smile when I used it.

It was halfway full now. I jot down more notes on my magic that controls the water in a person's body. When I was doing it to Tobias, I realized that I could twist off his body parts and make his heart and arteries explode. I drew a sketch of the human body and how my magic has opened my eyes too. We don't have the tools that can see the inside of the human body but I have the magic to do that.

We have veins, something we already knew because we can see them in a few places but the way it is all connected was amazing. The heart was always pumping and blood went out of the larger arteries and those spread out to the body, delivering oxygenated blood. The veins brought the blood back to the heart so that the lungs could pump air into them. It was amazing what I could learn just by controlling the water in someone's body.

"What are you drawing?" Seth comes out of the bath and stands over me. I finish the sketch and turn it to him. When I look up at him-

"Where is your shirt!?" I shrieked. I jumped away and covered my eyes. His bare chest was ingrained in my memories, not in a bad way. He was pure muscle and it was amazing and... very attractive, but I was a young woman that wasn't supposed to see those things! "Put on a shirt!" I shouted at him.

He chuckled. "Ok, ok, ok." When I opened my eyes he had the shirt on but left quite a few buttons unbuttoned. He took a seat next to me on the bed and then it hit me that we would be sharing a bed. We have before, but the bed at my house was much larger, and we only did that one time. "What are you drawing?"

"The inside of a human body." I shoved it in his face and he grabbed the journal from my hand. My heart was beating rapidly and my face was probably all red. I took deep breaths but with his ability holding me it was impossible to stay completely calm. Another issue with his ability is that it makes emotions you didn't even know you were feeling so strong and bring light to them. Mine being lust... I shook my head to clear the thoughts.

"What's wrong?" He placed a hand on my shoulder and I jumped slightly. "Are you ok? You are getting really jumpy."

"It's nothing." I turn to him and he smiles. I grip my dress and start to shake. I wanted to ignore my feelings. He squeezed my shoulder slightly and I began to relax again.

"Are you sure it's nothing?" He asks softly.

"I just don't know how I feel about sharing a bed with you." I stand up and gesture to the bed.

"Why? We've shared a bed before." He states the obvious right away and my face heats up again.

"No, it's just, this bed is smaller, and-and..." I take a deep breath. "Things have changed from last time, between..." I looked him in the eyes and something was on fire in his golden brown eyes, "...us." I turned away quickly and stomped over to the bathroom. I slammed the door closed and slid down it until I hit the floor.

Why did I say that? Why did I say that? That is something I should've kept to myself. Sure, I think things are different because I feel different towards him. I thought he was charming, lively, and attractive but I never planned to act on it in any form of course because that would be inappropriate for two travel partners. Not to mention, I have no way of knowing if he felt the same way I do. I groan into my hands.

Good job. I grumble to myself. I am doing a great job in life. I stand up and undress. I pour in fresh water and make it hot enough that it stings when I first get into the water. I grumble and soak in the hot water. I scrub soaps on my body as I consider how I should handle my outburst from earlier.

"I'm so stupid." I mumble to myself. Why would I say that? Why do I even think this way? Sure he is a good looking guy but he was hunting me two months ago. Although, now it was different. I got to watch him teach Joseph and Bastian and he is so kind to them. He makes everything fun so they don't lose spirit.

He plays with Adeline and Josephine whenever they want to have a tea party and he teaches Elliot how to stay calm when she starts to have an anxiety attack. He makes them have fun even when life brings them down. He smiles and cares for them.

Then, he smiles at me. That's when I knew I was cared for for the first time. That beautiful smile was my anchor and I might have just destroyed it. But, knowing him, he will laugh it off and tease me. He will hug me and tell me to take deep breaths and tell me that I am strong and can handle the next event. He knows when I start to panic inside and he is there for me and I can't say anyone else ever is.

Even when I told him I was fine he reassured me and told me that we would make it through this. He has supported my decisions and even helped me carry out last minute ideas. He supports me even when I give up on my ideas. What will I do if I ruin that? Will I be strong enough for everyone else?

I grunt and shake away my anxiety. One thing he was always right about is that I am strong. I am a witch, afterall. I washed out my hair and got out of the bath. I dried off and pulled on my slip. It was a light blue like my eyes. I walked out of the bathroom while brushing my hair.

"So, are you ready to talk about what you said before storming off?" Seth asked. He was propped up against the bed, sitting on the floor next to baby Iris. He wasn't doing what I had hoped. I guess I wasn't going to get away with this outburst. "What did you mean when you said that things are different between us?" He looked up at me with worry, his eyebrows were scrunched up together.

"I-" I sighed and sat down next to him. "What do you think I meant?"

"That you think we grew apart?" He offers with a shrug. "But, I don't think that's it since the first time we shared a bed was right after I had found you and I had thought we had grown closer since then." He turned his head to the side to look at me. "So, tell me, Mariposa, what is different between us."

"Lord, I am so dumb!" I curled up in a ball on the ground next to him and started to cry. Of course he wouldn't understand. Of course he didn't feel the same way as me. I need to stop assuming.

"What?" He pulled me into a hug. "You aren't dumb." I gripped onto his shirt and looked up into his eyes.

"I like you, Seth."