[While Makie was poking around the shelves, Thor had moved around the throne to lean on the side of it, watching her. He raises his head a bit when she asks her question and huffs, amused.]

Now? The best we have been in a number of years. Even despite some of the tragedies that have befallen us since.

[Or maybe because of them.]

That time was just before everything went wrong for us. The years in between were not easy.