If that is my nickname, it is one you never told me.

[Kind of like the clothes in his trunk that she'd bought for him and never given to him, maybe?]

I would ask you not to use it so freely if so. I don't know that Mas...that your fiance would much approve. I know he can't fight very well right now because of his injuries, but that is no reason to anger him any more than necessary.

[This is..odd for Diarmuid. He doesn't know where she is from in the war and that aside, he has been told that neither she nor Kayneth survived the war. Yet, here she is alive and well. He has to watch what he says for for fear of upsetting her unnecessarily.

Well, mostly well. Her insistence that he should know that nickname is bothering him.]