His smile disappeared, and he stared at her uncomprehendingly. Had she forgotten? That seemed unlikely, if she remembered what had come immediately before. Absently running his thumbs over her cheekbones, he nodded. "Yes, we saved the King, although Vaizey shot him."
As her words sunk in, his breath left him. I was just going to stop Guy when I found myself here.
This was real. Every bit of it. He did not know why that suddenly made him so certain, but he knew that this was no hallucination, no purgatory. And Marian had no idea what had happened in their own time.
"You were brought here before... before Guy--" He could not finish. How could he tell her that Gisborne had run her through? That she was mere moments from death when she was pulled into this strange world? How could he describe how the heaviness on his soul had far outweighed the burden of her still body as he had laid her in the ground?
As steadily as possible, he got to his feet and held out a hand to help her up. "It's no matter. The important thing is that we are together." He hoped that the smile he gave her was convincing, and did not appear as forced as it was.