"We were neither of us our best selves. I'm sorry about your friend."

Though inwardly Mat is somewhat amazed he's only heard of the one death among Summoned. Considering the conditions, the dangers, the enemy that they'd been up against... Multiple, if one counts the cruel whimsy of nature. That so many survived is frankly miraculous.

"And you're hardly the only one who left me to my misery." So many of the people Mat's close to are simply not the comforting or sympathetic sorts. He'd hardly been on his own, but certainly there had been those he considers himself close to that had been mostly absent in his dark time.

At least Jesper had a good excuse. They'd been in a fight.