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Ethlyn, Princess of Leonster ([personal profile] baldrshand) wrote2023-02-15 10:08 am
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baldrshand: Eyes shut and looking down (Of things I wish were true.)

[personal profile] baldrshand 2024-08-12 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's such a relief to see Marianne safe. Ethlyn herself has been bitterly regretting her inability to save Claude--if she had been able to get to Miller just a minute sooner, it wouldn't have happened. Claude returned, as people do here, but Ethlyn knows too well that it's not an experience that can just be brushed under the rug.

But Marianne was safe, and it was over, and at least for today they can sit and take a desperately-needed rest from it all.]

I'm so glad you are, too. [She wraps her hands around her teacup. It may be summer, but she needs its comforting warmth.] How are you feeling? Maybe it's only because it's so recent, but... that was one of the worst things to have happened here.
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[personal profile] snowslip 2024-08-17 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm relieved it's over. I just...regret not being able to do more.

[ Marianne looks down at her tea. She was a guardian angel, yet she hadn't been able to protect the people closest to her. The pain sits uncomfortably in her heart. ]

But I'll be okay. [ She adds quickly if not completely certainly. She's trying not to beat herself up for it, goddess knows she does that enough. She's coming to recognize her self-defeating tendencies, and she wants to change. ] I know Claude wouldn't want me to feel guilty about it. He'll keep his chin up, so as a Golden Deer, I have to follow his lead.
baldrshand: Uncertain smile (When did it fade?)

[personal profile] baldrshand 2024-08-20 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure it's the last thing he would want. What happened wasn't the fault of you, or Miller, or anyone else, in spite of how terrible it was.

[Even if she wars with guilt herself--had she been better able to find the Gnosia, she might have healed Miller before he could kill her friend.]

...What does it mean, a Golden Deer? Was that the symbol of your homeland?
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[personal profile] snowslip 2024-08-25 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the symbol of our house. Back when we attended the academy together, Claude was our House Leader.

[ She smiles when she recalls her classmates. In hindsight, those were the better days, and her only regret was shutting herself away too much back then. ]

He was quite unusual for a leader. [ More laid back than Edelgard and Dimitri. Bright-eyed and clever in a way that didn't sit well with the old lords of the Alliance. ] I didn't know what to make of him back then.
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