There were very few crazy or perhaps to most people unpredicted choices she had made, and actually to the only other person in the world who had known the entire situation at the time, who understood it and could understand it the way she did, he wasn't terribly surprised. Even about their mother. And well, Marek didn't know everything about her, but it wasn't exactly something almost anyone knew about. She hadn't even been able to tell Patience - even in wolf form - about it. Patience was one of the best people Felixa had ever known though.
"Indeed, I didn't fetch phoenix tears for just anyone," the witch replied, still smiling, "And they can be very stubborn selfish creatures about their tears." And the bird had demanded on crying directly onto Marek's body in St. Mungo's. By that point, it had been getting harder and harder to believe she would get the tears for him.