The most magical, incredible moment of Eilonwy's life. Nothing could have been more perfect than that moment. Then, when they sat and he shook because he was so scared, and she held his hand, almost like he was a little boy, and all she wanted was to comfort him, and that was perfect too. There were such intense feelings in those all too fleeting moments that in all too endless moments of distance and nervous silence couldn't come back. Feelings that a word like love doesn't really cover.
Love comes in so many costumes.
This was like the breezes on the ocean after it rains, with the soft salty that softens everything and the smell of rain that filled Eilonwy's childhood. She was a creature of the rain and she knew it, it brought her comfort. Love that was a pure as rain was to her. She felt that love even when she could feel him give up, and at that moment when he did give up, break a part of her heart that even now still strains at fixing. She felt him within her because you can't lose a person who has become such a part of you, and yet she lost the silent battle to grow closer.