"I might not. Have a destiny, that is." Isabel had to chuckle just a little at that. "I don't want to be a liability when El has to go home, though. I don't want him to think he has to stay and not save his world, to spare my poor little heart."

Isabel folded her hands over where her heart was and tilted her head at Dust, now. "Will it stop me from having a good time while he's here? Telling and showing him I care about him? You're right, no, not at all, but that also goes hand in hand with what I just said, too."