To Aidan's credit, his own response is swift and easy and so very different from what anyone who had known him back in 2012 and earlier years might have expected.

"Quite happily married, yes." A pause, and then: "Now both of you share in the largest portion of my heart."

How long has it been since they could banter this way? He didn't really want to think about it. What was important was that they could, Vigil headaches be damned.