"I - don't think I would want to marry someone who would just kick you out."
That is not at all what he meant.
"Okay. Because I can't ever be totally sure that my luck with doors will hold and it's not even very good luck, I've gone more than a year without a door before."
"Bell," says Edarial gently, "I'm not going to strand you in my world and then abandon you."
"You'll be fine," says Zevros. "Really. I'm pretty sure Ari would fling himself off of a tall bridge before booting you out into a foreign country without anything more than a 'bye, bitch.'"
"Darn. There goes all of my plans. They're ruined, I have to start from scratch."
"Whatever will I do now. I was so set on jumping off a bridge, too."
"It would probably also be pretty hard to become king, if you jumped off a bridge."
"Nah, he'd be the ghost king, his rule would be eternal. And occasionally he would poke his head through walls and go 'Boo.'"
"Woooooooooo, I am the ghost king, here to poke my head through walls and say 'Boo,' and also to help jumpstart the economy, ooooooo."
"Mind you, knowing them, I would still need to get married. So, some poor woman gets to marry a ghost."
"Goooood luck with that one, have fun. Extra, special not it for becoming ghost king."
She goes and gets a two blank notebooks from Bar, and pens.
Work on the phrasebook proceeds.
When they've all been in Milliways for a couple of days, forming a clear picture of all the things the linguistically impaired Shell Bell will need to know about Marlatia when she goes there -
she opens her door.
"Mom! Dad! C'mere!"