[ His gaze flits up to meet Claude’s when he feels those eyes so intent upon him. He’d debated saying anything at all - maybe this was a bad idea. But it’s a topic they’d skirted around before. Carefully avoiding it. Like so many other dangerous topics left unspoken between them. ]
Before Dimitri… the Professor was just as absent anyway.
[ Finding both of them together in the ruins of the Monastery - Sylvain’s pretty sure that had been their first hope of it not ending on the disastrous path they’d all seen it heading.
Since the first move was his, he started with a pawn, shuffling it further up the board to start the play. ]
Felix and I… we’d discussed it. Argued about it. We could hold the north for a time, but not indefinitely. And there was no one else, without them, that we’d have been willing to follow. [ A pause, before he makes a face. ] Well, that I was willing to follow, and drag Felix along with me, likely cursing all the way.
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Before Dimitri… the Professor was just as absent anyway.
[ Finding both of them together in the ruins of the Monastery - Sylvain’s pretty sure that had been their first hope of it not ending on the disastrous path they’d all seen it heading.
Since the first move was his, he started with a pawn, shuffling it further up the board to start the play. ]
Felix and I… we’d discussed it. Argued about it. We could hold the north for a time, but not indefinitely. And there was no one else, without them, that we’d have been willing to follow. [ A pause, before he makes a face. ] Well, that I was willing to follow, and drag Felix along with me, likely cursing all the way.