Jokers. They somehow managed to say exactly the thing to make your brain stutter, and even if she's spent months now planning the wedding she never knew she'd been dreaming of, Zoe still couldn't quite fathom herself as a mother. She was only twenty-one.

"So I've got a while to go yet then," she says finally. "I'll have to see if I can further endear myself before I provide the Deck with little Foxes." She doesn't even go pale when she says that. Surely a good a sign, all told.