Sage was enjoying himself, and he knew Celeste was too. Which was why when she pulled away, he was admittedly rather confused. And honestly, rather worried. Had he done something wrong? He wasn't sure what was going through her head, but his had started blaming every little thing he'd ever done to find a reason for her to suddenly be mad at him. It was stupid, and illogical, but he supposed he just wasn't confident enough in himself.

Even so, he swallowed and collected his thoughts as much as he possibly could, so he could tilt his head and ask her "what's wrong," in a soft voice. He did hope she was alright, and nothing was super wrong or anything. Especially since they'd be moving in tomorrow with eachother, and then he'd morph and he out of it for a couple of days.

Sage had continued to be rather confused, though when she mentioned she knew Liz's mom, he sort of just gawked at her. "You what," he asked, wondering how in the world she'd met her. It wasn't like Amy had been a nice person, and it didn't seem like Celsete to have put up with her.

Her next comment made sense, though, and he sort of just stared at Celste in shock. She'd killed Amy? That was how she knew her? He felt guilty after a moment though, becasue he noticed how awful she felt about it all. "Hey..." he sort of murmured, heasitantly reaching for the girl. "I -it-we never-" he sort of huffed out a breath after a moment, trying to figure out how to word things. It was a particularly sensitive topic, and he didn't like talking about her much. "It's ok, really," he promised Celeste before taking a deeper breath. "It wasn't love," he sort of blurted. "She..." he heasitated for a second, gaze dropping before he forced himself to finish his scentence. "She was a customer," he sort of choked out. "It guess she liked what she got, cause whatever dowry she gave my father was enough for me to ship me off to become her trophy concubine husband," he snorted. "Anyway, that's how Liz came along," he added quietly, face flushing as he recalled things....he really didn't want to recall. "But really, Celeste, it's alright. If anything you did me another favor I can never repay you for," he noted.

Sage just watched Celeste as she spoke, mind still whirling. he really wasn't sure what to even say. "Celeste," he sort of murmured, tugging her into a hug once he noticed her start to cry. "It's alright," he murmured. "The only feelings that were there were a warped up sense of affection towards her." He would explain those feelings more later, if she wanted to know more about it, but right now he wanted to comfort his...fiance? Even though he technically hadn't proposed yet? He wasn't sure what to call her. Whatever.

He just held, her rocking gently, trying to reassure her. "I don't care," he noted when she said she'd killed people. "I've done it too, plenty of times. There's a reason I lock myself up when I morph," he murmured. "You're not a monster, Celeste. You're an orphan who didn't know anything but the Empress. It's her fault for this, not yours," he added, feeling quite angry about it and now wishing he'd killed the woman while he'd had the chance. In fact, he quite would have liked to go hunt her down this minute, but that wouldn't be the best idea.

Sage was ok with just holding the girl, as the way she was feeling made him just feel downright bad for her. He couldn't understand all of it, of course, but he understood the whole killing people part. He wasn't going to pressure her about it, just as he knew she wouldn't pressure him about his own feelings and emotions regarding touchy subjects, unless they had to be spoken about. Like just now. It was clear she'd needed to tell him that. And while he was a bit miffed, and he remembred things he really didn't want to remember...he wasn't upset. Not at her, anyway.

"It's all right," he murmured, taking her head in his hands once she'd calmed down a little bit, pressing a soft kiss to her forehead. "Why don't we go get to bed," he suggested gently. "Get some rest." They had a long day ahead of them....actually, probably quite a few longs days, as once he morphed it would be even longer before thigns would settle downa nd go back to a normal state of being.

(its all good lol)

Sage smiled gently at her when she agreed to go to their room, and he tugged her along gently over to the ladder before letting her climb out before following and drying off. Once he was done with that he tossed his shirt over his shoulders and picked up the sleeping Liz, wandering back to their room and settling Liz down again, doing his best not to wake her up.

Once that was done, he moved to comb his hair out and change into pajamas, which were really just sweatpants and a comfortable tshirt Celeste had gotten whenever she'd gone shopping the last time around. Then, he just moved to slide into bed as he waited for his woman to join him, wrapping his arms around her gently once she cuddled in. It didn't take long for him to pass out after that, not long at all, so he fell asleep pretty quickly. He didn't wake for a while, only squinting his eyes at the sun with a sort of groan the next morning, burying his face into Celeste's chest in an attempt to hide from it.