If she betrays me, it will break me, [ he admits. and perhaps it is cruel of him to hold a young woman to the bonds of forever, even when he explained them to her, and think they will be as binding and seem as born out of love at twenty five as they will at fifty five. ] And when she dies, it will ache, but I have mourned her death every day I have known her. But I will endure. The elvhen need me.