"I understand...." She said softly. "Honestly, I didn't know how all of this was going to go." She said brushing hair behind her ear. "Perhaps I was too forward, as I said, We Fae tend to speak our minds, consequences be damned." She said, and found herself feeling a bit slighted. She'd expected, while she would never admit such vanity, that any mortal man would jump at the chance to bed a Faery Queen much less marry one but she understand, like herself, his will was rarely his own, even if he wanted to, he had an entire people to look after and couldn't make such a decision rashly.
That being said, she didn't really know what to do next. This was an awkward situation for her, in more than one way, she was rarely told no, or put on hold, nor was she ever really wrong. She'd thought he'd agree to this, and she needed him to do it. No one else, Khalidor had the resources and the man power, she couldn't afford to lose out on such an opportunity, she was running out of time as it was.
Mercifully, another idea formed in her head and she gracefully took his arm as it had been before, walking with him down the garden walk "Perhaps Marriage was a little too ambitious," She said, patting his hand before smiling over at him somewhat cheekily. "So why don't we discuss an alliance....?" She said with a playful cock of her head. "Over that drink I owe you?"