You better be glad. [ He teased light-heartedly, or as light-heartedly as he could manage when it felt like a ball of lead had been replaced in his chest where his heart once was. ]

Maybe? I never went there. Ah, how about 'O'? O for old. [ At the question he shook his head, not recalling that particular story even if he had heard it before. Things tended to fall from his head when it wasn't relevant to the present. ]

I wish we had the chance, ruddy Mayor. [ That would have been a perfect way to spend the day with Magnus, had Eudio allowed it. ]