Weren’t they supposed to … actually apologise? Or was this enough, a hard-won mutual declaration of intent, and had they quietly reached the unspoken agreement that there was no need to push themselves through the embarrassing work of actually speaking the apologies? Were they just planning to save each other’s lives a handful of times, get drunk together once or twice, and consider that enough of a truce? Perhaps that was simply the way all emotionally constipated warriors understood each other, I decided
