[ The date isn't as helpful as he'd hoped. There had been so much that happened in that year at the academy - much of it after what Dimitri's said, he's pretty sure - that now with all the years of war coming after it: his ability to pin that down to a specific event isn't what it used to be. At least Claude has time to think that through and rack his mind for where that month falls. What he wouldn't give for Teach to be here too, because -
Wait. 1180. The reality of how far apart they are suddenly hits him like a gut punch and the glance he sends Dimitri's direction is lined traces of with something like melancholic nostalgia. ]
The last dates I remember before getting here were in the Pegasus Moon. But the year for me is 1187.
[ This opens a dangerous door he won't be able to close. There's no hiding he's older than Dimitri. Older by a significant amount as he now knows; lots has occurred between the prince's reality and his own. He'll go back and answer that question about how he's been, sure, but now it is decidedly evasive. ]
Before coming here, I was fine. Some... things... were starting to wrap up into good conclusions after a lot of work being done on them.
[ It's both opaque about what's happened and not subtle that something has at the same time. Claude won't bother to expand on that any further which says more than he wants it to in and of itself. But assuming that Dimitri can even manage it, any greater detail (or any at all) will have to be pried loose from him. ]
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Wait. 1180. The reality of how far apart they are suddenly hits him like a gut punch and the glance he sends Dimitri's direction is lined traces of with something like melancholic nostalgia. ]
The last dates I remember before getting here were in the Pegasus Moon. But the year for me is 1187.
[ This opens a dangerous door he won't be able to close. There's no hiding he's older than Dimitri. Older by a significant amount as he now knows; lots has occurred between the prince's reality and his own. He'll go back and answer that question about how he's been, sure, but now it is decidedly evasive. ]
Before coming here, I was fine. Some... things... were starting to wrap up into good conclusions after a lot of work being done on them.
[ It's both opaque about what's happened and not subtle that something has at the same time. Claude won't bother to expand on that any further which says more than he wants it to in and of itself. But assuming that Dimitri can even manage it, any greater detail (or any at all) will have to be pried loose from him. ]