There isn't any way he can think of to address that. What is he supposed to say? He can't reveal the things he's done for Lady Edelgard - the things he will do for Lady Edelgard - and now isn't the time to talk about her path and what will happen in the future. He could, certainly, but he doesn't want to. Not yet. He doesn't want to end tonight on a sour note like that. He just wants things to be okay for a little bit longer.
But he can't just dismiss it, not after she apologizes for overstepping her bounds - which she hasn't, she's well within her rights to ask.
He wants to reassure her and comfort her, but he doesn't know how to. It wouldn't be fair to.]
House Vestra is... not exactly like many other noble families. We serve as the Emperor's shadow, doing whatever needs to be done to assist the Emperor, no matter how terrible. I have been trained from a young age to see to Lady Edelgard's needs in the same way.
[It's a careful answer, and his gaze drifts off somewhere over her shoulder so he's no longer looking at her.]
...I am not the sort of person who is capable of being kind.
[And that's... really it, isn't it. It's not an admission of anything else, but maybe it's a start. Maybe it'll help explain things a bit when the inevitable does happen.
He isn't kind. He doesn't know how to be kind. And he never will, since it isn't something he needs.]
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There isn't any way he can think of to address that. What is he supposed to say? He can't reveal the things he's done for Lady Edelgard - the things he will do for Lady Edelgard - and now isn't the time to talk about her path and what will happen in the future. He could, certainly, but he doesn't want to. Not yet. He doesn't want to end tonight on a sour note like that. He just wants things to be okay for a little bit longer.
But he can't just dismiss it, not after she apologizes for overstepping her bounds - which she hasn't, she's well within her rights to ask.
He wants to reassure her and comfort her, but he doesn't know how to. It wouldn't be fair to.]
House Vestra is... not exactly like many other noble families. We serve as the Emperor's shadow, doing whatever needs to be done to assist the Emperor, no matter how terrible. I have been trained from a young age to see to Lady Edelgard's needs in the same way.
[It's a careful answer, and his gaze drifts off somewhere over her shoulder so he's no longer looking at her.]
...I am not the sort of person who is capable of being kind.
[And that's... really it, isn't it. It's not an admission of anything else, but maybe it's a start. Maybe it'll help explain things a bit when the inevitable does happen.
He isn't kind. He doesn't know how to be kind. And he never will, since it isn't something he needs.]