What is love?

Previously

…She leaned her head against his knee, the scent of him, a familiar and comforting blend of old books and faint pipe tobacco, filling her senses. The storm outside still raged, but within the quiet sanctuary of their home, and within the even deeper sanctuary of their shared life, there was only peace. The rain was no longer a threat, but a gentle lullaby, a reminder of the strength they had found together, a strength that would carry them through whatever seasons awaited them. The trials had not diminished their love; they had refined it, deepened it, and made it utterly, beautifully, and irrevocably theirs.