"I thought I was," Faye admitted. "I meant to be. That doesn't mean it wasn't a mistake."

Because it absolutely had been. Just because it was how she had handled all her problems up to this point, that didn't mean it had ever been the right course of action.

Stupid Din, being right with his not-running-away-from-things advice. Stupid Gren, making her see how dumb she'd been.

But the very fact that she was staying here, and wrapping her arms hesitantly up around Stark, and just closing her eyes and feeling him against her hair -- that probably spoke to how she wasn't planning on leaving again.

"I won't leave again. Not without telling you."

But maybe he needed to hear it.