He couldn't remember when anyone helped anyone who wasn't close kin.

But he was positive these people are Merida, or their close kin.

Yet not so like that they could have been brothers or close kin.

He saw you at risk and knew you for close kin in that moment.

And was it not at least part of the reason he had fallen into sleeping so much, sleep being death's close kin?

Of course I went after him, had to be seen doing the right thing, close kin and so on.

Many of the close kin followed them, with some taking up oars.

They are, as you have long said, our close kin in all but name.

That meant a member of the royal family itself, or close kin, and there was only one such who fit the bill.

If there are any close kin dead these last years, that's where they'll be.