"I didn't mean it like that," replied England in a voice just as terse. He was only making an observation. Things might be a but strange now. So many people had been hiding America's revolution from the island so as not to hurt him, but mostly not to give any ideas about changing the future.

Should England treat Prussia the same way? He closed his eyes, still keeping his head tilted back. Prussia seemed so young now. He'd always been younger than England, but now the age gap was even worse. And all those years in between that Prussia hadn't experienced yet mattered to their relationship. What was England to do about that?