[ He gives a faint wince because ow, critical hit. ]

I am. Especially because today was to be... [ He trails off, shaking his head before scraping a hand down over it. ] It was a battle most of us didn't want to fight. All of us have friends on the other side of that battlefield - on all sides of it. We'd avoided coming face to face until now, for the most part, but... That wasn't to be the case today. And unfortunately, we couldn't talk our Prince into finding another option.

[ His need for vengeance had blinded him to far too much. ]

So yes, I'm worried about that, but I'm also... very relieved I didn't have to stare down an old friend on the other end of my lance today.