Led a group of crows into battle--the new lads. [He's not sure how well military terminology will translate across time and countries.] Standard procedure. It was supposed to be quick in and out. But everything went wrong. When we got to them, he was the only one left alive, half his body covered in burns. He probably should've died that day, those wounds, out for that long. I think he wishes he did.

[Or rather, he knows the Major did.]

It never left him. There weren't any charges drawn up. He had an honorable discharge, went off to live alone in the country. People send him death threats. Someone tried to murder him at my wedding. He came near to letting them.