The long winter is no longer a dark, uncertain threat--he feels safe now. He spends long hours by the fire, with Harry, their hands clasped together tightly, like a perfect knot that can't ever be untied. Anchor bend, whispers the sailor within him, and even if a bond as true as theirs doesn't need a name, he still thinks it's very fitting--and so does Harry.
Rope knot (The Terror, Collins/Goodsir).