Your Royal Guard was being relocated. There'd been an attack on a neighbouring ally kingdom, and your father had trusted Dick to further protect them.

Over the years, he had been there to protect you, and now he would he gone in a heartbeat, replaced as if he'd never been there.

He stood before you, shining helmet tucked under his arm. His blue eyes darkened, eyebrows furrowed. As much as he could never admit, he would miss you more than you knew.