He knows she is there. He knows she is there even though it is no longer his heart, even though her heart beats in her chest and his in his own, and it breaks a little, pain where there should be none, where his heart should carry her to him.

But he knows she will be there when he opens the door, his breath catching. "Aeriel," he says, because he thought her lost forever. He has never been pleased but so sad to see her, not when he is in Avaric and she in Crystalglass.