She remembers how they were at school, Dorothea always teasing him about the crease in his brow, him just scowling more fiercely at her. Remembers being on the opposite sides of a battlefield, seeing those familiar movements she'd grown to recognize from the training grounds cutting down her ranks, her people. Remembers sobbing the night after having to retreat, her hardest effort not being enough to best him.
Dorothea doesn't talk with her old classmates much. This is why.
It's not that she doesn't miss them. She just misses an older version of them - when they were carefree, when she was headstrong, when life seemed easy. Before Edelgard.
She'd always believed in Edelgard. But the show must go on.
She raises an eyebrow at Felix, looking him over as well. "So you came, tonight. That's nice of you." Not what she would've expected, but then again, Felix had started to surprise her, before they'd ended up as enemies by definition. "I'm afraid they'll be disappointed. I hope you're not looking for an autograph."
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She remembers how they were at school, Dorothea always teasing him about the crease in his brow, him just scowling more fiercely at her. Remembers being on the opposite sides of a battlefield, seeing those familiar movements she'd grown to recognize from the training grounds cutting down her ranks, her people. Remembers sobbing the night after having to retreat, her hardest effort not being enough to best him.
Dorothea doesn't talk with her old classmates much. This is why.
It's not that she doesn't miss them. She just misses an older version of them - when they were carefree, when she was headstrong, when life seemed easy. Before Edelgard.
She'd always believed in Edelgard. But the show must go on.
She raises an eyebrow at Felix, looking him over as well. "So you came, tonight. That's nice of you." Not what she would've expected, but then again, Felix had started to surprise her, before they'd ended up as enemies by definition. "I'm afraid they'll be disappointed. I hope you're not looking for an autograph."