Sebastian waved back, and then lifted Aloysius's paw so that the bear could wave to. "Are you quite all right? I have no idea what you were doing but it looked very tiring."

Perhaps Isaac really was fighting something. This was, to Sebastian, a concerning thought. Though he was free of most of the weight of war, as he was too young and at school for most of it, that terror still lingered. Sebastian had no love of war.