...But... that... [The next part is mumbled, though it's probably still audible.] ...But they're about our age... Have I fallen behind that much? [Erza had always figured that she'd be married or have a kid before Alzak and Bisca, seeing as they could never get up the nerve to confess to each other.]

[She attempts to regain her composure, figuring that a subject change might help.] So Gildartz stuck around for the exam, then? And Mistgun must have came back from wherever he wanders off to - if those two weren't caught up in all of this "seven years" business, then the guild wouldn't have fallen so far.