There's a silence. Then:

"You met Mary? You've fought alongside her?" Her body was so light. It shouldn't have been so light. She'd been such a force when he'd known her, why was it that her body weighed so little? He shakes his head, trying to clear away the grief that roils inside his heart, and says, "I've heard of Heroic Spirits before. Do you know a Diarmuid? He'd mentioned that he'd been summoned from his time—or from his story, I wasn't clear—to fight a war."