"And you will?"
"Of course I shall."
"We are more alike than you had realized."
She looked up toward the colored curtain of the screen. "That is true. It is not the complete truth, Dantan."
He said, "I love you—Quiana." This time he called her by name.
Neither of them moved. Minutes went by silently.
Quiana said, as if she had not heard him, "Those who followed you are here. I have been listening to them for some time now. They are trying to break through the door at the top of the shaft."
He took her hand in his gloved grasp. "Stay here. Or let me go back to Zha with you. Why not?"
"You could not live there without your armor."
"Then stay."