school: maya

[shaft]

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[feytality]

Geez, Mr. von Riegan... you're really down on yourself.

[ she's complimenting him for once?? ]

[shaft]

Am I? I meant that in a funny way. In any case, we survived.

[ nudges her ]

You don't need to worry.

[feytality]

I always need to worry about you. [ nudges him back ]

What else happened?

[shaft]

We had to put on disguises and trick this guy so that we could steal his airship. Which we did, but they caught us and forced us to crash.

That's where we faced off against Ayam and the others.

[feytality]

Stealing an airship...

[ maya would be down ]

So then you escaped, and came back? How did you guys get time freezing powers, anyway?

[shaft]

We found a couple of items that had various effects. Sieghart found a syringe with a lethal poison, I found a smoke bomb and Catra, a watch that stopped time.

And I wouldn't say we "came back". We just appeared here again.

[feytality]

[ ]

Oh... weird. But did you get to keep the smoke bomb...?

[shaft]

I didn't. I got another poison... There were a lot of poisons.

[feytality]

[ making a face.. ]

What's with you and the poison...?

[shaft]

Hey! I didn't choose it.

[feytality]

You sure seem to like them a lot....

[shaft]

I've used them for a long time, I guess. And easy way to take care of problems without long, drawn out battles.

[feytality]

[ ... ]

When you say take care of problems..... do you mean taking people out?

[shaft]

[ oh whoops, his war crimes are showing ]

Yeah, that's it.

[feytality]

[ oops! ]

Why?

[shaft]

You tend to rack up enemies in a position like mine. I am fighting a war back home.

[feytality]

War? But why?

[ sorry she's just repeating what hes saying dramatically with her eyes widened ]

[shaft]

One of the neighbouring countries has decided to take over the continent.

As you can imagine, we're not keen on being conquered.

[feytality]

[ a few things click here ]

So you're all fighting..? In the war?

[shaft]

That's right. Me, Dimitri and Byleth.

[feytality]

Oh..... that's horrible...

[ in the words of knuckles the echidna, war is bad ]

[shaft]

It is. We're all carrying the weight of a nation on our shoulders.

But it's worse for the people in our lands, who have no power to change what happens to them or what decisions their leaders make on their behalf.

So we can't complain too much. It's our responsibility as nobles.

[feytality]

[ nobles, huh...... byleth certainly looks the part, but she wouldn't have pegged dimitri for a noble. ]

[ or claude, actually. in her mind, nobles are stuffy people who just sit in their castles or whatever. ]

I had no idea it was like that where you were from...

[shaft]

Mm. [ Reaches over to flick her forehead so she doesn't look too sad. ]

It's a heavy burden feeling responsible for so many lives. But here... I guess at the very least we have people to share that weight with.

[feytality]

[ even the flick doesn't snap her out of it.... she still looks pretty troubled.... seems like she's absorbing this new info ]

... I guess.... you guys do all have each other.

[ byleth obviously cares a lot about claude, and dimitri is tsun but.... ]

But why poison? Isn't that kind of... sneaky?