[Gallagher]

"Oh." There was a shift in the mana the longer they walked. It was slight, but as refreshing as Merlin's presence was. "Well." Refreshing, but not as comforting as Saber's presence, the shared mana, the mana that gave his servant purchase on the world, so close to his own, yet so completely different. "I had no idea the Holy Grail could talk, so I suppose I wouldn't say no." Where Merlin was the first opened window on the first warm day after winter, Saber was something close, something like family, that, instead of sweeping away the old mana, turned it anew. "I'd probably just be confused." Erik imagined that with these two servants, were he not in an unfamiliar country, with unfamiliar people speaking unfamiliar words, it might have felt like home.