[He would not insult Isaac with an apology. For leaving. For arguing. For dying to save him. That was not their way. Things might be a great deal easier if it was- but such words had been empty to Zevran too long for him to offer them.

He cannot help but shake the feeling that it might have been the same for Isaac, especially after what he was told not long before he died.]

...they do return in time, though. Long memories of safe harbors. Such things are terribly rare for Crows. Most think them a nuisance. Pests. Something to be scuttled aside and ignored.

[But not Isaac. Isaac took his company as he willed and cared little for what anyone else might say of it.]