shaft | school: byleth

[ hmmm byleth did answer a follow up question so maybe he can too ]

In some sense. It's a feeling of impotence.

[she nods, and looks back out, at the middle distance.]

I think that's a shared feeling, right now.

I'd imagine so. We're all a little helpless here.

[ Closing his eyes, he sighs. ]

It's frustrating what few leads we have.

[his sigh is contagious—she exhales a long, slow breath, both sympathetic and similarly frustrated.]

Apparently the principal assured the dormitory leaders that nothing was wrong.

That's a matter of perspective. Just because he sees nothing wrong with bringing us here, doesn't mean that it isn't wrong in our eyes, so I don't find that very reassuring.

[ He pinches the bridge of his nose. ]

The best case scenario is that he's brought us here as some social experiment or test of his technology or power.

Me, neither.

[Forty people yelling there's been a mistake, or a principal who is apparently a bear? none comfort.]

There's nothing, no matter where I look.

[people either act like they're crazy, or say they'll look into it—and then, nothing.]

No expulsion, either.

No expulsion? Did they say that?

It slipped during the dormitory leaders talk.

Only punishment.

[at the hands of a power that can rip them from their own worlds, current activities be damned, and stop time.

she gives claude a more meaningful Look.]

Well I'm not going you test it out now!

[ He still wants to know, but he's not foolish enough to put himself in danger. Maybe someone else... ]

But Dimitri might be at risk. Unless you convinced him to behave?

[her face draws slightly, clearly concerned.]

I don't think he's in any danger for the time being.

On the contrary, he's staying away from anything related to our captors.

[hence. the. geesehunt.

sigh]