"Is anything ever so simple? I won't refute it. But I do wonder what the gods have in store for us. I wonder if it was my destiny that my clan be destroyed the way it was, but that...man" -carefully avoiding the word 'monster'- "If that is what was meant, then I can only wonder as to why. Should we be rebuilt? Would you join me as my queen?"
He was only teasing, but he still glanced at her as he asked the question.