Axel hurriedly explained while sweating buckets, "Sorry, Lord Simon, with all due respect. Vyra and I are good friends. I don't really see her that way. Besides, I have someone else that I like, and so does she."
Simon chuckled, "Oh, come on now. Don't tell me its the princess that you like. But with the nature of the royal family, it would be walking into a snake's den; you should understand that. It is literally selling yourself to the devil. Even if you do manage to convince the king to agree."
As for the valkyrie, he did not even need to mention it. For the valkyries would always be married to the next crowning king; no one could change that fact. That has not changed for thousands of years, according to what he knew.
