Ford grinned. "I'm not." Sometimes he wondered if he ought to have been doing this alone, or at least shouldering a more significant burden and shielding Noble from some of it, but never in all the time since their father had died did Ford feel as though he'd been alone. They did not always agree — they did not always trust each other — on some occasions they had not even been speaking to each other &mash; but neither of them had ever been doing this alone.

Set by Lady!