Much leaned into the kiss, thinking about how good it was to have an alley in this sort of stuff that you could also make out with. And maybe kissing didn't actually solve any of the bigger world problems but he felt a hell of a lot more fortified when she pulled back. If she hadn't spoken he might have grabbed her face in return and kept kissing her, because what if making out for a few minutes was going to solve things??
But then she did speak, and that opened the door to everything that'd been tumbling through his head on the trip over. "Did you read about what Marian's building at the Fox?" he asked, pulling a face that said Well.... shit.