[There's too much to do, to seek happiness for its own sake along with everything else. ...And Yuan wouldn't know where to begin.]

[But he doesn't want to argue it here and now, not with Kratos offering an out, and the potential of being able to breathe easy again sitting in the air between them.]

I don't pretend to understand that, either. Did she say anything that might explain why, exactly?

[Surely his braid isn't that pretty, even to a Tethe'allan child who isn't used to the occasionally arcane Sylvaranti customs.]