Yes, it's a despair-filled sort of freedom, isn't it? For her. Still a vast step down for him. But he's at least the sort who could imagine feeling liberated by a catastrophe.

"And what will settling entail, then? No powerful shadows to stand in at the moment, are there." Hey, it's not like she'd seemed broken up about her husband's death. "At some point you might have to cast one of your own."