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“There is nothing wrong with you. The…” Tywin sat down, looking up at his wife. “The fault lies not in you.” he said in a tempered tone. “I look at you and you are beautiful and wonderful and you’re to be the mother of my children and…. I don’t want to feel for you. I do not want to risk that I can have such things torn away from me again.”

“It would not be forced. It cannot be forced.” He replied. “It would not make me unhappy to feel for you.” He was quiet another moment.

“It is rare for me to admit fear in the face of anything. If you were not my wife, I wouldn’t even say that much. However I trust you.”

She smiled faintly before rising from her chair and slowly walking around the table to kneel at his side. “I understand your fear, Tywin,” she told him, looking up into his aging face. “It is a noble fear. You need not love me - I have enough love for the both of us, I think. Your trust is more than I need.”