"You would have done the exact same as I." Her boss had been informed in the morning, once Saturn and she were already miles from the excavation. The situation hadn't been handled as expertly as she ought to have done, but Jo could do little else in the heat of the moment. "Let one of your brother's send word when you're so far from home that they needed you, and then tell me you wouldn't have rushed as I had." Jo couldn't remember the last time Mars needed anything, nevermind Jo herself. The girls grew apart long before their years in Hogwarts.

"I didn't leave you. I had an emergency situation arise and did the best I could in the moment." It wasn't an apology, but it was as close as he would ever receive. She wasn't sorry she hadn't stopped to write a note, not when those precious seconds might have been the difference between catching the departing boat and not.