Tristan tilted his head a little to look at the artist and nodded understandingly. "It must have been rough." Back in the asylum he had treated an ex-soldier who had fought in South Africa, and who hadn't been himself since. "It was important work though. Letting the public know the actual cost of war." He didn't want to seem unsupportive of the empire, but privately, Tristan often wondered what good would actually come of it, and especially what ill.