[Grits his teeth. This will be the most unwelcome advice ever, but no one else will, and Marco is kind of in a "fuck it" mood already, so how much worse can things get?]

Rinoa... [How can he begin this at all?] Has come a long way in the last year. [Wow... that was weak.] Between all the help with gunblades and her time here as a cadet...

You should tell her what your last memories are, eh. She deserves to know.

[Okay. That will give him some time to figure out a better approach. It's a start? And not one Rinoa would kill him over. He assumes.]