A year? [ Now Sylvain is the one sputtering, his eyes going wide as his mug of ale clunks loudly against the tabletop. His own mind struggles to wrap itself around the reality of that. ] I don't understand. How could you...?
[ He stops. Looks like he's about to say something else before he stops that, too. And then he just gives a humorless laugh, raking his hand over his face again. ]
And I can't even ask you how it went, can I? Not with things so wildly different. It wouldn't be the same anyway, not if all the rest wasn't. [ He really hoped Felix and Ashe, at least, weren't out there getting themselves killed without him to keep an eye on them. He doesn't even stop to consider anything might have halted or delayed with his absence. He's pretty sure nothing would have been able to stop Dimitri from stepping onto that field, not even their Professor. He just hoped they didn't think he'd abandoned them by choice. ]
Yeah, she... Dimitri, he... he's not himself right now. She's had her hands full. We found her just a short while ago, in the ruins at Garreg Mach. We all thought she was dead. Dimitri, too. [ He'd grieved them both for so long now, it had been hard to believe either of them had come through it despite the impossible odds.
He blinks, wondering if that was different, too. ] The Professor... did yours vanish for a few years, too? After the Empire's invasion?
not at all! i needed to know anyway i felt bad for having to pause the thread in the meantime lmao
[ He stops. Looks like he's about to say something else before he stops that, too. And then he just gives a humorless laugh, raking his hand over his face again. ]
And I can't even ask you how it went, can I? Not with things so wildly different. It wouldn't be the same anyway, not if all the rest wasn't. [ He really hoped Felix and Ashe, at least, weren't out there getting themselves killed without him to keep an eye on them. He doesn't even stop to consider anything might have halted or delayed with his absence. He's pretty sure nothing would have been able to stop Dimitri from stepping onto that field, not even their Professor. He just hoped they didn't think he'd abandoned them by choice. ]
Yeah, she... Dimitri, he... he's not himself right now. She's had her hands full. We found her just a short while ago, in the ruins at Garreg Mach. We all thought she was dead. Dimitri, too. [ He'd grieved them both for so long now, it had been hard to believe either of them had come through it despite the impossible odds.
He blinks, wondering if that was different, too. ] The Professor... did yours vanish for a few years, too? After the Empire's invasion?