okay so i read this like three times last night and then fell asleep so here i am saying things now! this was lovely and so well-crafted and very heartbreaky and i loved it all - the friendship between herc and tendo, how tendo's there for him even in silence, and herc's silent grief, a nearly impenetrable facade but a broken heart behind it all and he's still not really expressing it, gosh this was lovely, thank you so much!