"It should be." Malik replied, before dropping to sit on one of the chairs.

He rubs his hand over his face, sighing. "What you want does matter, regardless of what is going on or how impossible it seems. Though if you want I can put on a sweater vest and tell you about how inaccurate history books are."

He's trying for a joke, even if it's a poor one and he knows it.

"Highlights... well, I almost married both a vampire and Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo left before I could ask and Melissa agreed. I also died... five times. Maybe six, I lost count somewhere. Fourteen overlays will do that to you I think."