After polishing off the dinner tray Elin brought up, I flop backward onto the bed. I lie there flat on my back, staring blankly up at the ornate plaster details of the ceiling as my mind continuously loops those two words like a broken record.
Thousands of years... thousands of years...
"Hehehehe..." A goofy, entirely unhinged grin spreads across my face, and I think I actually start drooling a little bit onto my pillow as I laugh silently into the empty room. Hmm, I'm an elf, so I already have a crazy long lifespan. And my hot, cold-mage human husband surprisingly has a cheat-code body that can live forever too... hehehe.
A massive wave of relief washes over me. So that means I have literally thousands of years to slowly break down his icy walls and capture his heart, and we'll still have eons left over for later! Pheww... I can completely relax and put all my focus into my kingdom building right now without any ticking clock over my head!
