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- Aaron repeatedly notices Alexander looks clearly underfed, and buys him food and drink after only a short dialogue together. Afterwards, he keeps taking dinner with Alexander to make sure that Alexander is eating.
- Aaron explains to Alexander why he's remaining neutral on the issue of the Revolutionary War, and inadvertently includes that he wishes he wasn't under so much scrutiny as the Seer and had a semblance of control over his own life. Instead of staying angry at Aaron for not choosing a side, Alexander replies "I’ll fight so that you can be free, Mister Burr, sir.” Heartwarming to Aaron, too, since he thinks he fell in love with Alexander after Alexander said this line.
- Alexander’s arguing with Aaron over Aaron trying to talk him out of dueling Charles Lee, who he thinks is responsible for many deaths at the Battle of Monmouth. It’s interrupted when Aaron has death visions that nearly make him throw up and fall over. Alexander instantly switches to protective concern, although it might be downplayed by the fact he’s angrily blaming Lee for Aaron’s episode. When Aaron tells him it’s his own fault for purposely shaking all his soldiers’ hands for military intel and reveals sometimes he can barely walk, Alexander’s so worried for him Aaron thinks it’ll interfere with Alexander’s duties as Washington’s aide.
- The birth of Philip, Alexander’s son, chases away his very frequent thoughts about death.Alexander: I’ve never seemed to be able to die. Not when my mother died, not when the hurricane came, not when my cousin left me to fend for myself. Not during the war, even when people were falling left and right around me. I’ve always been—ready, you know? I’ve imagined it so much it feels more like a memory, in every possible way, in my sleep or a bullet or something dreary like sickness or some sort of terrible accident—I never thought I’d live past twenty. And then I did. And then Philip was here and it was a lot harder for me to think about death. Not when there’s so much in life.
- Aaron’s love for his wife, Theodosia. When he rejects an offer to hold his daughter, she knows why without needing an explanation, and makes him special thin gloves so he can still hold and feel his daughter as much as possible without actually having the skin-to-skin contact that would give him a vision of her death.Theodosia was truly the most beautiful, brilliant, perfect, and understanding woman in the world. Aaron couldn’t thank the fates more that she was in his life.
- Aaron’s relationship with his daughter, Theodosia. He refuses to genderlock her education, making sure she learns the same things a boy of her social standing would as well as the things a girl would. He thinks that she’s his whole world, and most offhand references to her involve him approving of or being proud of her. She supports Aaron throughout his troubles in chapter 6, coming to comfort him after his treason trial, exchanging letters with him while he’s in Europe, raising money for him and sending it to him, and writing letters to the Madisons to ease his return to America. He primarily tries to stay hopeful after dueling Alexander for her benefit.
- Cats don’t like to travel long distances. Despite this, Martha the cat goes from Philadelphia to New York to be with Aaron Jr, who spent the entire section he gets for his point of view on wishing she was with him. It’s a bright spot in a mostly angsty chapter.
