"I didn't mean to make this all such a downer," Marian sighed. "But I guess that's our lives right now." Marian's affair cracking them almost apart, Tuck dying, their enemies constantly at the gate. When were they supposed to take a proper breath?
"You really picked a rubbish time to show back up," she said, before smiling at him warmly. "But I'm glad you did. I've missed you a lot, Will."