[Do they have a chance? Do they even need a chance? They are together, here and now, and they've both said that they don't want that to change.

Part of Giles is wondering what Ginia is asking, and part of him is afraid that he knows just what she's asking. And so, he can only be honest with her.]

I don't know.

After all, um...not to sound impossibly melodramatic, but it really does seem as though the world is conspiring against us, in that regard.

[Giles has always tried never to promise more than he can give. After all, they don't even know if they'll survive the oncoming thorns. They don't know how death works here.

That doesn't mean he doesn't wish he could.]