[Were this any other number of people, it might be easier to address this. But with Nerva, he realizes how much he wants this to go right for both of them, and how much she matters to him. He wants, most of all, to make her happy.

And it'll be a sure adventure to find out how.]

Nerva, at any point if I am wrong please feel free to correct me. But I don't think I'm wrong about this.

I wanted to have you out here with just me because of how much you mean to me. Not just as a friend. But because of how much I've come to care about you, and that you have mutual feelings.

That I love you, Nerva.

[Quietly, he hopes to himself that he isn't wrong, that he can count on his instincts, he can count on Zevran's observations, and how insistent Cassandra had been about this.]