[Horatio has to smile. Whatever worries he might have about England and William Bush and the Hotspur and the Atropos and Maria... None of them matter. At least not in this instant. He has Archie back. His dearest friend, and a man who may as well be kin for as close as Horatio feels to him. The guilt will return another day; he knows it. But for now... He can smile.]
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