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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.”

“I would like that very much.” He told her, taking her hand. “It will be good, I think. I have been too busy to really relax recently and it is not difficult to be myself in your presence.”

Celebrian felt herself soften completely at that, and she stood up before pressing a chaste kiss to his mouth. “It pleases me very much to hear that,” he told him quietly, trying to keep the pain from her voice. She didn’t want him to know how much he had hurt her - it wasn’t his fault, after all. “I shall have some wine brought - do you thirst for any kind this evening?”