shaft | hotel: yuri

Ah, with your little braid? [ hehe ]

Well, if you, the prince and Gautier all showed up here looking five years younger than you are, I’d be pretty confused myself.

… Maybe both are true. If they’re insisting they saw you there, and you have no memory of it, it’s the only thing I can think of even if it is improbable. That, or a convenient bout of just as improbable amnesia.

[ Aw, Yuri remembers that?

Claude smiles at him. ]

I think it's nice to imagine. Maybe there's a version where there was no war.

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[ i remember it. ergo, so does he. ]

…

[ after a moment, yuri tilts his head looking very, very thoughtful. ]

A place with no war, huh. Finding it hard to imagine that?

Not without a magic wish. People are too prone to conflict, wouldn't you say?

Conflict, and differing opinions. If the kindle doesn't spark at one point, it will at another, but the end result is always the same.

That's what magic wishes are for.

Is that what you had to resort to then? Can’t say I don’t see the appeal, if it got all the messy fighting to stop.

It would've been pretty noble to use my wish for that, but I didn't.

But there might be someone out there kinder than me.

[ leader of the decade right here. ]

Maybe. Better hope so or Fódlan is going to continue to get messier and messier.

You don't think things could improve without magical intervention?

Not quick enough for my liking. Oh, it can improve, probably. But when there's time to figure things out and not a war going on.

Five years does feel like long enough.

I take it you used your wish to end the war then?

Please, I had to filter through all the things that needed my attention when I was making a wish.

Apologies, I hadn't realized you were so popular.

Yeah, I’m a social butterfly.

[ pff ]

I have other things I’m responsible for. I have to weigh up those immediate needs against longer term ones. You know how it is.

I do, actually.

[ He sighs. ]

I hate to picture what'll happen to me if I ever have kids. That's one too many sources of responsibility.

Imagine having kids.

[ laughs. ]

That’s something any kid of mine wouldn’t deserve.

It was just a hypothetical.

A telling one though.

[ can ghost ladies have kids? ]

[ they cannot ]

I wouldn't read too much into it.

[ tragic. they’d have beautiful kids. ]

Hmm.

So it was those other responsibilities that took precedence then.

... To be honest, I'm just trying to sound noble.

It really was just a selfish wish.

That's pretty much the point of a wish though. I don't think many of them stem from places of selflessness.

It's kind of hard to go through weeks of hell and sacrifice your one magic solution for the greater good.

Exactly.

Probably better to just be honest about your aims being selfish. Even the most selfless sounding wish out there probably doesn't come from such humble origins.

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