[Did he, though? If Waver said this, there was no going back. It might destroy everything, shatter the delicate trust of a partnership that meant more to Waver than his own life.]

Understand that I don't ask anything of you. There's nothing I want in return, nothing you are obligated to give me. Nothing in this or any world that will ever make me think of you as anything less than my knight. Nothing has to change; you need only say the word, and I swear to you on this life you saved that I will never speak of this again.

[But...it had to be said, didn't it? No matter the risk, to continue to hide it would be no better than lying. Be the knight you think you are, he told himself. Don't you dare look away. And if he turns you down, meet that with a smile and accept it without disappointment. You know he'll blame himself otherwise.]

But you deserve to know the truth. To know that the heart I entrusted to your protection already belonged to you, and has for a long time.

Diarmuid ua Duibhne, you are...you are the most courageous, loyal, compassionate, wonderful person I have ever known.

And I...I'm in love with you.