"Yeah. Sometimes... you just know things." It was said with a little bit of a faraway look, like Rowan was remembering other times and places as she spoke the words. "I know you don't do that. You don't seem like the type for that. So I think it might be the real thing. Like I said, and you said, sometimes you just know these things."

Smiling at Michi, she recalled the Yule that had just passed. "He did. Without a single prompt or anything. Right from the heart. I've loved him for... for a long time, and didn't want to spook him by saying it when I first felt it. He said it on his own, and that means so much more to me." She continued to smile, even as she took another sip of her drink.

"So tell me more about Gael. How did you guys start talking? When did he ask you out? Or.. .did you ask him?" Michi was a strong girl with her own opinions. That last bit was not out of the question.