I'd happily take even that. At least they still have each other. My Sam and I could have the most explosive rows, private and public. They only made the rest of what we had all the more precious.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'