Depowered!Mori and hurt/comfort with lots of hurt do sound interesting, although I don't think I can take another novel's worth of dodgy-to-absent historical portrayal for the sake of them. Sorry! (It's a shame when really good ideas are combined with off-putting stuff.)

I'm sorry, I don't know/remember who Phineas Fletcher is?

From John Halifax, Gentleman, my favourite champion hopeless piner. :)