"Didn't strike me as the kind of guy who takes a lot of vacations either," Marc said. Because it took one to know one. "But does seem to suggest it's not some portal thing. Or at least not like what you and Prompto dealt with last year. Guess that's good news?"

Marc was fully aware that there were a lot of options beyond "some portal thing" and many of them were worse than just being a random portal. But he wasn't going to add to Liz's worries by pointing that out.