... I do still owe him a drink. [He lifts his head.] But--yes, I have enjoyed the chance to be by his side in peace.

[There are fragmented words in his memories from after that drunk meeting, hazy in all of the alcohol. Hard to remember the details except the hesitancy etched in Trahearne's face.]

When he isn't spending time with others, of course. He really seems to have thrived--and to think at first I was worried I would have to drag him out of being a hermit.