You protect her. She needs protectors.

[ even if this one is a dwarf. but he is not greedy, not quite right in the way that the elves of thedas are also distorted reflections of their counterparts in middle-earth. ]

I think I am 'her thing'. We do not wed lightly or carelessly. I am hers. I will always be hers. That is not a duty I take lightly.

[ what if he slips in battle, what if the rifts swallow him like they swallowed legolas-

no. he will not think of it. ]