It was as if she could hear the whole story in that sigh, it reminded her so much of when Shawn had gone missing. She had hoped and prayed (even though she was not truly a devout person) long after everyone had assumed that he had been lost to them. The world had not seemed right until he had walked back through the door back to them. Then it occurred to her - Evander had known this feeling before as well. Indeed, they had talked about their experiences with missing brothers. How much worse it must have been to feel this for her? She had felt it horribly out on the ocean, but this was the second time he had been subjected to it on the ocean with no news. Her brows furrowed with concern as this occured to her and she waited for his answer.

His words brought a rather wobbly smile to her lips. "I can not imagine how horrible it must have been." Her words whispered between them, and even though she knew them as truth and hardly doubted his love for her, her cheeks warmed with a slight blush. How presumptious of her. But she knew she was right, even if she perhaps ought not to have said it and so she kept her eyes on him and softened them with as much understanding as she could.