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“I think I would.”
“That’s the most silly thing, ever, Kaphas.”
“But you like it,” he softly accused.
She sputtered a little. “What woman wouldn’t like it? I’m just a girl underneath this...”
“Gown?”
Her pulse went through the roof. “I meant in a vocational sense.”
He turned on his back again with a sigh. “I know. But I still want to see what a human girl looks like. What if I find her repulsive?”
“She will not be repulsive!” she cried, back to smiling.
“What if I don’t like the female human body? What if I’m so shocked that she dies of shame?”
“Oh dear, it is one of our greatest fears, you know,” she said quietly.
“Is it?”
She sat up at hearing his doubt. “Emphatically! It’s a girl’s greatest fear what her husband will think of her.”
“Do you think a man doesn’t have these fears?” he asked.
Her mouth dropped open at the surprising thought. “No,” she answered, none to certain now.
“Well, you’d be emphatically wrong. I happen to have a great terror about it.”
“About what?” she wondered, truly clueless.
“What she will think of my body,” he patiently stressed.
She shot out a laugh and lay back down, smashing the covers down next to her body. “Now you’re just teasing again. You were given the body of a demigod, of course every woman will absolutely love it.”
“You sound so very sure and yet...I don’t believe it,” he informed, matter-of-factly, again shocking her.
“Are you being intentionally dense?”
“I don’t care what you say, it won’t remove the fear.”
“Then...you should try looking in the mirror and then you will see.”
“Do you see your beauty when you look in the mirror?”
His words stunned her. The truth of them. “I do not.”
“What if it’s the same with me?”
She looked toward him, unable to imagine such a tragedy as him not seeing his beauty.
“And what if I’m broken?” he wondered now. “What if when it comes time to do the things a husband is supposed to, I can’t?”
She got up on her elbows at this. “Well...won’t you know this once you’re done growing?”
“I don’t know. Should a seventeen-year-old know this?”
“I...would think so.”
