I really loved the sharpness and the comfort/not comfort; of being seen down to the last uncomfortable parts, of how a wound being tended to can feel worse than just pain, where Algy gives Erich everything he needs but nowhere to hide - and Erich expects it, and welcomes it, and chooses it over the brand of emotion and distress and gentleness that Biggles would have provided, and which would feel much more than he could take <333