Do you have any 2 rings ? <| sep |> Oksana spun around with Vesk underwater , listening to his strange and rambling declaration . There were a few times he faltered and fell back into his native Damour . This happened particularly with words like love and mate which did not exist in the Sela Song . But she listened . She listened to the outpouring of emotion from this man she had made her companion . She waited until she was sure he was finished before she responded . I think many things about you . You have an incredible inquisitive yearning for knowledge . But you also have a depth of compassion for all other living beings you encounter . You have a tremendous power that is yet to be tapped through study and discipline . And you make me . look at the world differently . Do not change your behaviour in attempt to please me . That would be most counterproductive . I want to learn about you . If you start altering your behaviour , it will ruin the . She stopped herself from saying experiment . It was still an accurate summation of the endeavour , but she felt like it would not be a good choice of word for the moment . . the time we have spent together . But you must understand something . Next year , it will come time for me to lay my eggs . I will swim down to the deep well and leave them there for the Nasselatan to fertilize . Then I will return for them , bring them to the surface and let them hatch . I will have no mate . I will have no love . That is not the life of a Nassela . We have sisters , colleagues , and subjects . We have work . She stared into his eyes through the clear water . There was pain there . She was still not saying the right thing . Curse her luck . She got the most indecipherable research subject there was . Katya never had such problems . But I want to stay with you , and travel with you , and sing with you . I feel . I feel this is truly the place I ' m supposed to be . And I want you to know that I really doShe was interrupted by a sudden rumbling that sent vibrations through the water . They swam back to the surface . In a distant part of the island , there was smoke pouring from a mountaintop .