"You stay here. I'll be right back," Moses ordered him.
Henri's eyes followed him going out a door. A moment later Moses was back with a rag soaked with water.
note: I don't know if he should've gotten the water from a well (which would take long) or had some on hand...
Moses walked up to Henri.
"Where are you bleeding?" he asked.
Shakily, Henri stretched out his arms and turned them over showing his wrists painted with blood. Moses patted the cuts with the rag.
"Oooooh," moaned Henri.
"Don't worry, I'm almost finished," he assured him.
"There we go," he said soothingly, finishing up. "Well now... is everything all right?"
Henri looked up at him with hurt eyes. "Non," he said simply.
"Can you tell me why you aren't wearing any clothes?" he asked.
Henri blushed slightly. He felt very awkward being in this position.
Moses let that answer slide, seeing how uncomfortable it made Henri.
"Sarah told me you did this. Is this true?" he questioned him.
Henri's eyes grew sadder. "Oui, Moses... I'm sorry, but I 'ad to do it!"
"Why did you have to do?" Moses asked in a soft tone.
"Uh..." Henri pressed his lips together.
Moses looked at him sternly with worried, questioning eyes. Henri looked down with not a sound.
"Why can't you tell me?" he asked further.
"I… just can't... It'z..." Henri sighed, "It'z personal... not to mention embarrassing," he said in a tiny voice.
"When someone here gets hurt, it's my job to find out why," Moses told him.
Two new tears fell down Henri's right cheek. His eyes were at the floor. He was wringing his hands.
"I'll leave you here for awhile. You can tell me at breakfast," Moses left.
Henri wrapped himself up in his blanket and hugged his knees.
Gilbert: This French nobleman whose beliefs in liberty led him to America's fight for Independence. He fought in both the American Revolution and the French Revolution. In the show he adopts Henri in one of the very last episodes and they go to live in France. In my story I have it that he dies within a year and Henri is yet again left with no family.