school: byleth

[shaft]

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[divineimpulse]

I told him.

[shaft]

Okay.

[ this is veering so far off the track he was expecting that he can't even remember what he had planned to ask about ]

[divineimpulse]

Claude.

[she calls out, voice soft, quiet.]

Did you want to ask me something?

[shaft]

[ There is. A lot. Probably something to clear up all of the questions they have about murders and Thursday nights, but. ]

Did you kill Hilda and the others at Gronder?

[divineimpulse]

Hilda retreated with you when you were injured.

[shaft]

[ ? ]

You didn't kill me?

[divineimpulse]

No.

Dimitri injured you, but you were alive.

We didn't pursue.

[shaft]

Why?

[divineimpulse]

Why should we have?

By the end, your troops were shattered, and ours were thin.

Destroying the Alliance was never our goal.

[shaft]

[ He looks for a moment like he doesn't believe it. ]

You didn't seek to conquer Fódlan?

[divineimpulse]

Conquer?

[she blinks, for a moment genuinely confused.]

No.

Why would we?

[shaft]

Dimitri seemed to view me as an enemy when we first appeared here.

I assumed that was why.

[divineimpulse]

[she shakes her head, a little ruefully.]

You were supposed to be on our side for that fight. The sabotaged alliance.

Someone brutally killed our messenger, and things got... muddied.

[she looks genuinely ired by this fact.]

[shaft]

... I see.

[ He's too caught up in this. ]

And now? What're you fighting for now?

[divineimpulse]

[she laces her hands together, the most tense she's looked in this discussion so far.]

Dimitri is aiming for Enbarr.

[...]

cries in notifs

[shaft]

[ Hm. Well, that part at least makes sense. He'd always known that chances of reconciliation were slim between Dimitri and Edelgard. ]

I meant you, not Dimitri. What are you trying to accomplish here? [ ... ] Will you continue to kill now that you've been caught?

pats lovingly

[divineimpulse]

[she shakes her head.]

I don't know.

Not a good answer, but it's the truth.

[shaft]

... About what I expected.

Then, I want to know. What do you want, professor?

[divineimpulse]

I want all of us to leave here together.

[shaft]

I think most people would prefer to go back to their own homes.

[divineimpulse]

[this guy.

she just nods.]