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The advantage of being a nation is that whenever you go to war, you will be considered high ranking and be given good accommodation. In this case the bedroom of an abandoned farm, the owners having fled form the hostilities.

The other advantage of being a nation is that no matter how much you fight at the front of your people, you know that you will survive. The disadvantage is that doing that so that you will be raising the spirits of your people is kind of your job, and the enemy knows that you're responsible for your people's spirits, so you are a lot more likely to get hurt than everyone else. Particularly when you've fought them often enough before for many people to know who you are. Screw Denmark, really.

Sweden is back in their bedroom sooner than Finland and when the other nation enters he is currently trying to get out of his mail and clothes to be able to check himself over, clean his wounds and dress them. The doctors and barbers are busy with the humans who needs quick care because they will die or get infections, and he doesn't want to hold them up when hurting for a while will be the worst thing that will happen to him. Plus, Finland will come back soon anyway and he'll ask him to help. ...He just hopes that Finland wasn't hurt too badly, no matter how capable in a fight he knows the other nation to be he still cannot help but worry about him a lot.

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"W' should visit there aft'r this."

That also means that they'll be walking around Finland's and Estonia's lands, which they haven't in a while. As much as it won't be a vacation, he hopes that it will be nice for Finland to visit there again. It's a bit lonesome to be away from your land and most of your people for such a long time.

But yes. Just casually showing Russia that he's still keeping an eye on that area would be a very important part of the visit, too.

Finland smiled, his gaze still locked on Sweden. "Yes, we should."

It had been a while since he had been home. It was just something that happened when you were following around another nation. But it did get difficult always being away from his people and from his home for so long. Not that being with Sweden was hard, but he had his own troubles and Finland's weren't always first priority.

Though they possibly should have been. Russia kept peeking in all the time. While Sweden was intimidating, Russia was down right scary and he kept bothering both himself and Estonia. Having Sweden around, even if just for a short amount of time, might let Russia know to stay away.

"I'd like to be able to go back there."

Sweden hums in acknowledgement.

Good.

Then they will go... soon. As soon as they can. It will take a few more days, perhaps a few more weeks. War isn't a quick affair, never. But the one advantage of waging the war at your own border and not somewhere in the middle of HRE is that home is close by, and thus that everywhere within his realm is comparatively close by, too.

He finishes his work on Finland's bruises and rests his hands in his lap for a bit, thinking.

"'nthing specific that y' want t' do?"

Finland thanked Sweden again as he finished up tending to his arms. He looked over at Sweden as the other sat down near him. This was nice, a few minutes of quiet to not have worry about other things that were around. They would definitely know if Denmark made another appearance, but hopefully they had gotten enough hits on him for him to be gone for a while as well.

"Oh well, there's lots of things we could do," Finland replied. "We could visit the sauna. Would be nice after something this. We could have a feast. What do you think?"

Now that they are not fighting, he's starting to get tired, leaning a little bit closer to Sweden.

He hums at both suggestions, agreeing that they would be nice, but doesn't make a new one.

It's nice to just sit here like that, next to Finland - he could do that forever, if that was an option.

...Perhaps put an arm around the other nation. Just so he doesn't sway and fall off the bed, of course. Yes, putting an arm around Finland now.

"'r sleep." That's obviously not a plan for the long run, but Finland is tired and now that he knows that Finland is well, he can feel himself growing tired, too.

Finland was fine with no additional suggestions. That just means he'll come up with some more things for them to do when they are visiting his home!

But not right now. Sleep was sounding increasingly like the better idea at the moment. He still ached and all the fighting had worn him out. Under different circumstances, he might have been weary when Sweden put his arm around him, but at the moment, the only thing he did was lean in closer to Sweden, enjoying the warmth.

"Yeah, we should sleep," he said softly, practically snuggling up against him.

Well, that can be done.

He pulls Finland onto the bed, wrapping around him in a protective hug. They're clean enough from what he can tell, and if Finland is still wearing his boots, who cares. They can rush off any mud in the morning.

For now he just doesn't want to break up the moment by separating to getting more undressed.

If Finland weren't so tired, he might have been more resistant to suddenly falling on the bed like that. He was still wearing his boots, but if Sweden didn't care, why should he. He would worry about it later.

He pressed back against him, feeling the warmth of the other nation so close to him. He felt protected, safe when he was with Sweden, even if he did have his scary moment as well.

Sweden for his part will just hug Finland to himself and enjoy the feeling of having him there, safe and warm and close.

He meant to stay awake until Finland has fallen asleep, but the day has taken his toll, and happy and content and relaxed, he soon nods off.

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