"Are you suggesting I'm argumentative?" Liliana asked, then laughed again, leaning in to steal a kiss in return. Her voice hushed automatically, drawing closer to him to make sure no one could overhear. "I was still something of a...a broken-winged bird when I arrived here. Josu...being a Planeswalker...spending the previous few years in a fury of learning necromancy...it was all so very much. But here was a balm. A place for me to land, to m-mend--" A stumble over that word, that work that was still so very fraught and full of pain itself "--here was where I remembered how to laugh. What joy felt like. Peace. I remembered what it meant to learn for the love of learning, instead of a frenzied attempt to fix what I had broken. I am many, many things, my love, and few of them particularly nice or good. But what good that remains is from my time here."