We found Sieghart in the river, unconscious. He woke when we disturbed him.
He didn't remember departing his dormitory.
[and she'd talked to him, talked him up and down about what he could and could not remember. so if dimitri was a similar case... this was better than asking him a bunch of questions that he was too tired of being posed to him.
[ he goes quiet a while, contemplative, cautious. the breeze carries the silence. he's holding his tongue, and only seems to eventually release it because it's byleth. ]
...Bites from the wildlife here. [ he rolls up his sleeve to show a few, still fresh. ] Barely substantive.
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As you said with Sieghart, I don't remember sustaining them.
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he wasn't wrong. she'd hoped the other shoe dropping would be less dire, but...
...here they were, once again. ironic, that their backdrop was another school.
byleth advances until she's just by him, still silent.]
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Did you hope for something different?
[ even if this is the second time their school days have been interrupted by death? ]
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[she'd hoped. foolishly, perhaps.
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We found Sieghart in the river, unconscious. He woke when we disturbed him.
He didn't remember departing his dormitory.
[and she'd talked to him, talked him up and down about what he could and could not remember. so if dimitri was a similar case... this was better than asking him a bunch of questions that he was too tired of being posed to him.
plus, he deserved to know.]
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So I have heard.
[ the amount of people who somehow found him on this roof. he's gotten bad at hiding, apparently. ]
And you think he speaks the truth?
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interesting.
she moves a few steps closer, hoping to get a good once-over of him before the light drops much lower.]
I do. He was frustrated.
[as someone with memory loss tends to be.]
Have you spoken to many?
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[ he doesn't really seem to mind the latter, though he knows the creature is watching him. ]
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Are you injured at all...?
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...Bites from the wildlife here. [ he rolls up his sleeve to show a few, still fresh. ] Barely substantive.
[ ... ]
As you said with Sieghart, I don't remember sustaining them.
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...]
Thank you for showing me.
[she withdraws, giving dimitri his space again.
was it appropriate to use this as a segue? but it had been a week...]
How is your other wound?