Alfred's just trying to ease your burdens. [Edward tips his hat to the Indeedee, then nods to the great Dane, and makes his way inside as he talks, demeanor so casual and chill that it's deliberate. Edward's trying to deal with the trauma in his own way, too.] I get that, I've done much the same.

[He shrugs.]

Don't have to thank me for it. You'd look out for me and anyone else, yeah?

[Besides, they're both men of the past. Nostalgia means something very different to them than it does to everyone else.]

...did I ever tell you, before I was a pirate, I was a privateer in a war?