[That's when he gets up, having no immediate words to counter the things she's saying. He teleports just inside of the door to her room, but stays there.

And he stares.

Right at her, trying to see if this determination she feels is strong enough to say to his face, listening closer than ever to the emotions in her tone and in her mind, looking for just how important this 'good and reasonable man' is to her.]

That's your decision, is it?

[He steps a little closer, but doesn't go for her throat like he did the first time they met.]

Force me to go to this man, beg him for an arrangement where he can call you - except he doesn't even really need you, you say. And you came back here to live in my temple, saying your loyalty hasn't wavered. So this other god won't call you and you don't live with him. What purpose could being his bonded shinki possibly serve either of you then?

[It's a demand for an answer to be spoken aloud that he already suspects he knows the answer to - because in lieu of any sort of logical choice, humans will always have an emotional reaction instead.]