Sorcha and Iubdan

"I thought, looking at her, that she still seemed weary, with a trace of shadow around the luminous green eyes. She was always pale..."
"She sat on a bench beside Iubdan...His arm was around her shoulders, and she leaned against him. The words came to me again, Let them keep this , and I flinched..."

from "Son of The Shadows"
by Juliet Marillier