You take the standing beside her and the seal takes both names at once.
It is a year of your life in one night and it hurts in a way nobody warned you about, and she holds your wrist through all of it.
IsoldeNine years my family did this alone. Nine years.
The walls hold. The two of you are empty and shaking on the floor of the chamber at four in the morning.
On the balcony afterwards she has her hair down and no sneer and she is still holding your hand.
IsoldeSame time next year. Ask me properly this time.