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Oh-! I see...

[she hadn't expected his preferred method to be, er, inappropriate honestly! she would have thought he preferred like... sitting next to each other during a nap or reading about crests or something.

when he takes her hand, she closes her eyes to better feel his emotions. she expected the anger - but not the gratefulness and appreciation. she mentally pokes at it, curious, before the disapproval sets in.

what he feels is just what's expected of her, honestly: the strongest, most stubborn conviction known to man, a curiosity about him, a sense of understanding of his anger towards her.]

omg sorry long tag

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[Linhardt can't help himself, he smiles. His answer was completely honest, but he's aware that it's unexpected (versus if he were, say, Sylvain). He enjoys surprising his friends (and yes, she does still count, even if he doesn't trust her. He doesn't fully trust Hubert, either).

He sighs. Of course she notices. Edelgard is nothing if not perceptive, which is what makes her blind spots so frustrating.]

I am missing many pieces of the puzzle, such as what happened when you were in the Kingdom...

[Linhardt nods at her.]

But I know enough to know that war would have come to Fodlan eventually. Back at the Academy, I spent quite a bit of time in Abyss. Enough to understand how badly Rhea was crippling Fodlan, and I would be lying if I said I weren't personally angry by what she'd done to my peers.

[And indeed, Edelgard feels a flash of anger magnitudes greater than Linhardt's towards her. Linhardt is angry at Edelgard, but in proportion to what was actually within her control. His anger at Rhea, on the other hand, isn't wholly rational.

A lot of it is personal hurt: He's spent his entire life thinking he was this freak of nature. An oddity. To learn that there had been other scientists and the Church - Rhea personally had snuffed them out of history and prevented them from fostering a community? Of course he's angry.]

And the Empire's archives that my family administers go back to the founding of Adrestia, so I've always known the Church is somewhat less than truthful about certain aspects of history.

[That there are villages hidden away. That the Four Apostles exist. That Saints Indech and Macuil are alive and could still be found. That the Crest of the Beast exists. That it's possible to have two Crests. All possibilities that would have been hidden from him if he'd been reliant on the Church's information sources. Which is likely why they censored information to begin with.]

By acting as you did, you saved us, including me, from possibly having to do so in the future. If in 20 years Rhea demanded I stop doing something that I thought would help the people of Adrestia or Hevring, I wouldn't stop. I wouldn't have stopped at the Academy; I just wasn't worth her attention.

At any rate, by acting as decisively as you did, you also took the burden of acting in an absurd situation. Thus sparing the rest of us. We were allowed choices and we sleep more easily at night because of what you and Hubert have done.

That I am grateful for that is rather cowardly. I'm not particularly proud of that aspect of my nature.