< We did. It was as easy as a mission involving a Golden Bough normally is-- > [Which is to say it wasn't easy at all, and bittersweet at best] <--but we made it through. >

[Their strange, somewhat dysfunctional family of thirteen made it through.]

< I told Ishmael this already, but I can't give you all the details of the mission. But it should be okay to talk about some of it if you want to be prepared. >