As Marian was talking about her fear for the baby Much was listing things in his head, ready to burst out with one reason after another why things were scary and stressful and made him feel so powerless, and then her firm but made his thoughts stop rushing. When Marian used a tone like that, it was worth listening to.
Oh. Gods and angels. Well. Hadn't the twins been under angelic protection when Lucifer took them, too? And wasn't Clio already beloved by a bunch of gods and angels and saints and that?
And when one of the gods who was on Clio's side (right now, anyway) was someone who had forced a near death experience on Marcie (and tried to force plenty more) then how was Much supposed to deal with that? By keeping away from him? Yeah, that only worked till it didn't.
"D'you believe it will be?" he asked Marian, with a mix of both skepticism and hope, because if she believed it, then he'd figure out a way to believe it too.