Dragon Offering

[bhdire8]

"Us dragons, perhaps you have heard, are very loyal to our partners. A lesser known fact was... we could actually choose whatever as our lover, I mean cross species, and our mate would be sharing our life, until eventually we, too, die with old age. So now, I am asking you, if you would give your consent to be my mate, making my long life no longer lonely and aimless, just as before i have met you?" Acrux said that. It was a proposal for life, and he managed to make it sounded very unromantic. He knew humans had come up with a lot of ways to ask for another's hand, yet somehow he just screwed it up. He looked away in embarrassment not hearing any response, and abrutply said "NO no.. Caleb. just forget it. This is way too suddne. I should have been more prepared and not just bombard you with such new idea. Forget it Caleb oK? just pretend you hadnt listened to anything."