Harry relaxed again. "Good. Good. I don't want to have contributed to another Unwin dying. The first was bad enough."
He nodded a little, then remembered not to with another small, sharp inhale of pain. "That's a lot of knights to replace. I don't think we've had losses like that since... well. Maybe the war." He absently reached for Charles' hand again, holding onto it like it was grounding him, keeping him here. "At least Chester had lived a full life and then some."
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Date: 2016-06-03 01:02 pm (UTC)He nodded a little, then remembered not to with another small, sharp inhale of pain. "That's a lot of knights to replace. I don't think we've had losses like that since... well. Maybe the war." He absently reached for Charles' hand again, holding onto it like it was grounding him, keeping him here. "At least Chester had lived a full life and then some."