[Huh. Interesting.] I will try, I will not make any promises that he will accept me. But I will try.

Etelo, I need you to understand this. I did not leave you. At all. I came up here as usual, the night you heard me sing through the door? And I was locked out and dragged away. When I came back there were yet more guards. So I left, only far enough to get his attention and then you spoke in my mind for the first time ever. I could have wept, being away from you so long. I could not think, or function. I did not leave you. I swear it.