She swallows, rough on her dry throat. Desperately leaning up into the affection, drinking it in like a desert under rain. "Then something must change."

Its hard to say, hard to admit like she might wound Magni further. To admit something like unhappiness. "You want me to be happy, I know this, as I want you to be happy with all my body and soul."

Tries to get it out before she stumbles, before the world returns to ruin their newly return peace. "But I am not just your wife, I am your Grevinne. I rule in your stead when you are not present. But I had to hear from stranger that you were somewhere I had no idea about? it makes me, us, look... "

Weak. She grips harder both her hands over Magni's, holding on. "Talonhold has wealth, but she does not know how to defend herself. That is why we married, because someone had laid its most precious heart bare. Let me be your blade, let me defend our home. Let me be that extension of you, and I will not bite so much in feeling useless and unprotected." and to that - and that, she is terrified to ask because no matter how she hard she worked, she was still an outsider to some. "Let me sit on your meetings with your advisors and when you make plans for the hold."