[It's a dreaded question, actually, one of the ones that Beatrix has continuously hoped someone else wouldn't ask her. It's not because she doesn't have any feelings for the peacocking redheaded former lord. It's because she doesn't want to have to talk about them. Having to even remotely imply them to Dohalim had been almost like pulling teeth out of her. To someone else...

It's much easier to dance around the subject, admit that he's good to her and treats her well and leave it at that, which was precisely what she told Eustace and Tifa when they enquired. And right after that, she admitted that she couldn't put much faith into a relationship that wasn't going to last in a world she couldn't stay in.

A very complicated conversation that one was.]

I would like it very much if I did not need to answer questions like that.

[She has to be honest. It makes her uncomfortable. Of course, the only way to get over that is to actually just talk about it.]

I acknowledge that he treats me well and kindly. Is that not enough?

[No, of course it isn't. Because she needs to actually be able to confront her own feelings.]