[ His tone is dry now rather than teasing, not quite up to injecting the same amount of 'playful' as he had before, as he tries to come to terms with this new understanding. Honestly, he's been putting on a mostly good face since arriving here, because panicking is going to get him nowhere fast. Although he's becoming more and more that that might be exactly what's warranted here.
Instead, he takes another deep swallow of his ale. Coping mechanisms, right?
Although he does give a quiet scoff after a moment. ] Yeah, somehow I'm not surprised that that was a 'brief' talk. I can't imagine it went too well, considering. [ He knows what mental state he'd seen Dimitri in that morning. And the suspicions that Claude might have had their messenger murdered when they'd reached out for an alliance against the Empire. Sylvain didn't believe that for a moment, but Dimitri had become obsessively paranoid and mistrustful of everyone.
His lips quirk at the comments about the Professor, however, and he can't help but chuckle, fond affection in the tone. ] Yeah, the Professor's never been exactly 'normal'. Nice to know that they're still the same person, it seems, even when they're... not.
[ Weird. It's still weird. He's trying to picture her as a man and it kinda breaks his brain a little. Would he still be shorter than Ashe, he wonders? ]
We'd made a promise. [ His voice turns quieter after a moment as he stares down into his ale. ] All of us, back when we were in school. [ Sylvain took such promises seriously. Felix had bitched the entire trip, but Sylvain knew he felt the same. Ingrid just knew better than to let either of them wander off into trouble alone. ] No matter where we were in five years, we'd come back to Garreg Mach and reunite for the millennium festival. Together, again. Felix, Ingrid, and I traveled together, but even then, we weren't sure any of the others would. Not with... not with everyone believing His Highness and the Professor were dead. But then we got to the ruins to find them back-to-back fighting bandits and the rest of the Lions showed up as well and... well. It really was like old times again. Almost.
i already love them
[ His tone is dry now rather than teasing, not quite up to injecting the same amount of 'playful' as he had before, as he tries to come to terms with this new understanding. Honestly, he's been putting on a mostly good face since arriving here, because panicking is going to get him nowhere fast. Although he's becoming more and more that that might be exactly what's warranted here.
Instead, he takes another deep swallow of his ale. Coping mechanisms, right?
Although he does give a quiet scoff after a moment. ] Yeah, somehow I'm not surprised that that was a 'brief' talk. I can't imagine it went too well, considering. [ He knows what mental state he'd seen Dimitri in that morning. And the suspicions that Claude might have had their messenger murdered when they'd reached out for an alliance against the Empire. Sylvain didn't believe that for a moment, but Dimitri had become obsessively paranoid and mistrustful of everyone.
His lips quirk at the comments about the Professor, however, and he can't help but chuckle, fond affection in the tone. ] Yeah, the Professor's never been exactly 'normal'. Nice to know that they're still the same person, it seems, even when they're... not.
[ Weird. It's still weird. He's trying to picture her as a man and it kinda breaks his brain a little. Would he still be shorter than Ashe, he wonders? ]
We'd made a promise. [ His voice turns quieter after a moment as he stares down into his ale. ] All of us, back when we were in school. [ Sylvain took such promises seriously. Felix had bitched the entire trip, but Sylvain knew he felt the same. Ingrid just knew better than to let either of them wander off into trouble alone. ] No matter where we were in five years, we'd come back to Garreg Mach and reunite for the millennium festival. Together, again. Felix, Ingrid, and I traveled together, but even then, we weren't sure any of the others would. Not with... not with everyone believing His Highness and the Professor were dead. But then we got to the ruins to find them back-to-back fighting bandits and the rest of the Lions showed up as well and... well. It really was like old times again. Almost.