It was. And Goliath still wasn't sure how to bring it up. An excess of solitude had only made him more certain of his feelings, but that was a certainty he had already been confident in before waking up on the ship. And here his love came, only just from that morning he had remembered so many times -

He held her close and took comfort in the familiar warmth of her body, the softness of her hair, in her being there for him to speak to and protect in person at all.

"Much has changed in the time we have been sleeping, but this has not. I will always protect you, and I will always help you to do what needs to be done to protect our home."

Even if their home was this city, or even this strange ship, for now. Whatever else was unspoken or unclear about and between them, this would never not be so.