It isn't Aragorn who speaks next, but Faramir. He glances at Aragorn and Arwen, silently seeking their permission, and when the King nods, looks back at Jack. The hand not entwined with Éowyn's comes up to her shoulder, as if he's looking for reassurance that she's here, solid and present. It came as a nasty shock to him, hearing that there was a time when she was not, and that he had done nothing to save her from it.

"And is it also truth," he asks, his voice low and intense, "that it was not ever so? She does not speak of you as a foe. Yet I would have it from your tongue, that there was some fondness between you."