[Perhaps he is young, but he is a soldier. This is not the first disaster he's lived through, and though he might not admit as much to either her or Jamie, he had been there at Culloden. At the age of seventeen, no less. Of course, Hal had kept him off the battlefield, but he had put a pistol in his hand after the fact and sent him to help clean up the field thereafter. And then of course there was that time that his former lover had drugged and kidnapped him and nearly forced him to join his underground cult of murderers...

No, this is not his first rodeo. Though it isn't quite like anything he has experienced thus far, to be sure.]

If I'm being honest with you, madam, I'm having a hard time following just what all is going on. It seems like only yesterday my own world was supposed to have ended, and now...?