I know, but... Goddess, Ashe, I don't... he hurt you, and you deserve to know why things got tangled and ended up that way and he's been winding himself way too tight with paranoia and shoving people away so they can't hurt him, but—
[She grasps at the air, making a soft, broken sound.]
Ashe, I can count the people he's willingly offered anything to here on one hand. And—you said something to him. That he wasn't at war anymore and I—it's not my place to tell you the whole of it but—Ashe, he left a finished war for a seedbed of new battles, right before ending up here. When he goes back, it will... it will be to people trying to scheme and assassinate and discredit him. Constantly. He's...
[She's got to break out the big guns to get her point across.]
Just a few days ago, he was terrified I was going to leave him for Sylvain, and he loves me. Trust is a slow gain, with him. Faith is...
[She hesitates, searching for a good analogy.]
That Lord that adopted you, he... he had a son, right?
no subject
[She grasps at the air, making a soft, broken sound.]
Ashe, I can count the people he's willingly offered anything to here on one hand. And—you said something to him. That he wasn't at war anymore and I—it's not my place to tell you the whole of it but—Ashe, he left a finished war for a seedbed of new battles, right before ending up here. When he goes back, it will... it will be to people trying to scheme and assassinate and discredit him. Constantly. He's...
[She's got to break out the big guns to get her point across.]
Just a few days ago, he was terrified I was going to leave him for Sylvain, and he loves me. Trust is a slow gain, with him. Faith is...
[She hesitates, searching for a good analogy.]
That Lord that adopted you, he... he had a son, right?