Yeah. I wasn't really worried about being lost. I was thinkin' about what'd happen when I was found. Getting found with or without Holst made a big difference.

[Now he's quiet for a long minute.]

It all went south when I got sent to the Officer's Academy. They screen for Crests, y'know, and that's when they found mine. Well — it's Fódlan nobility, yeah? There's no chance a Crestless younger son is gonna inherit a noble house when there's an elder with a Crest kicking around, questionable parentage or not. That's when the bitch got murderous. She had to; there was no chance of her son taking the barony any other way.