She came to a stop.
"But of course... you have to stop acting like it's not there, and that's what makes it hard until it starts to conflict with your own mind and feelings."
"Like now... you can see that Apollo doesn't confess to you, so what's the point in waiting if you have someone like this man right here?" Talyra said while pointing at Rex. "You're not going to regret it."
Rex was sitting on the edge of the clearing and watching the scene without saying a word. His silence was his way of letting things happen as they should.
Nerith looked at him, then at Talyra, and then at the forest around her, which was telling her things she didn't want to know.
"Okay then, wait here," Talyra said. "I'm going to get the fruit I was told to get and tell Apollo that we need some additional time."
