Seeing him break down that quickly was hard and it made a lump form in her throat. Keziah hadn't seen a man cry like that since her mother had died. Her father had cried harder, sobbing for nearly two days, and Samuel had cried that hard but for a lesser time than her father. However, she hadn't seen any of them cry since then. Keziah wondered if he'd ever seen wounded soldiers before, ones with wounds that you could only hope they would be able to survive. She was shuffling over to him on her knees in no time. Keziah hugged him tightly and carded her fingers through his hair. "It's okay." She said to him, "They are safe with Him now." Keziah had told that to Samuel after their mother had died. 

The nurse stayed that for a long time, until he calmed down and she could pull away. Keziah thought of her brother and his wife and she found herself wiping her eyes and cheeks. At the moment she didn't know what she would really feel. She should be angry at him. It had been his plan to sabotage the guns at night but he had failed and now innocent civilians were dead.  At the same time though she knew it hadn't been his fault, perhaps this was always how this was meant to end, rather in the way the books in his day spoke about it.
Keziah got up to make supper when she was sure he wasn't going to cry anymore. The booms from the guns outside broken what could have been thought of as a comfortable silence. It was unnerving but there wasn't much she could do about it now. 

Diner was a simple meal of boiled meat with some hunks of break from the basket that the nurse had brought the other day. She would have used other things like vegetables but she didn't have much of an apatite and she didn't think that he would either. "What are we going to do now?" She asked as she handed him  a plate. Keziah didn't even know if her brother and his wife were even still alive and now I was too late to warn them and chances were they were hiding in in the homes of friends, or possibly somewhere else. Keziah had settled in the chair opposite of him and ate quietly. She had no clue if they could go out there and find Samuel and Elizabeth or even how long it would take them to gain control over Boston.


((Forgive the post. I'm extremely tired right now.))