These power games are beyond her understanding. She is, she knows, more of an innocent than most, but whatever is between Irrylath and Oriencor is strange, though it did not seem so until this moment, these words.

"She does not know what she wants."

They consume each other, if she must cast him away in favor of her work, if he must wait for her call to return. In truth, she thinks it is Oriencor's work which is unhealthy, and if anything her work ethic is an outgrowth of that, but Aeriel is biased.

She doesn't question whether he knows what he wants; it hardly seems necessary.