Edelgard thinks for a moment. Dimitri's words seem to have stirred the recesses of her mind, and the inklings of a memory. Even though she cannot recall the words precisely, if what Dimitri says is true, she had internalized them to such a degree, that his telling her about them reminds her. "Yes...by my uncle's carriage." She says. "You gave me the dagger. I remember now." She stopped carrying it on her person long ago, and certainly didn't wear it to this meeting today like she did with their first meeting, when Edelgard had heard he'd returned.
"All this time I've carried it and couldn't recall for the life of me how it had come to me." It was Kingdom-made and must have come from her time there, but nothing beyond that. But it was a well-made weapon and a useful tool besides so she never felt the need to get rid of it. "How did it come to be back in your hands?" She takes another drink. "It never left my side in my world. It's here with me in Avalon, in fact."
She nods at his reasoning. "Yes, I understand. And I am not angry at you for keeping your silence. To be honest, I'm afraid the knowledge would not have changed anything. I was already too set on my path by then." She sets her cup down.
"But I do wish you to know something. That I forgot our time together...it wasn't that the time was unimportant to me, or of no consequence. I did not forget you by choice. I'd have held onto those memories, if I could have." Yet another reason to hate Thales for what he had done to her. Not only had he taken her family from her, but also the memory of the one good childhood friend she'd once had. The one...
She remembers that night at the Goddess Tower, when she'd spoken of her first love to Byleth. A young man of the Kingdom who's name she could not remember. A young lord's son. "I know that time meant a great deal to me." She says finally, and leaves it at that.
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"All this time I've carried it and couldn't recall for the life of me how it had come to me." It was Kingdom-made and must have come from her time there, but nothing beyond that. But it was a well-made weapon and a useful tool besides so she never felt the need to get rid of it. "How did it come to be back in your hands?" She takes another drink. "It never left my side in my world. It's here with me in Avalon, in fact."
She nods at his reasoning. "Yes, I understand. And I am not angry at you for keeping your silence. To be honest, I'm afraid the knowledge would not have changed anything. I was already too set on my path by then." She sets her cup down.
"But I do wish you to know something. That I forgot our time together...it wasn't that the time was unimportant to me, or of no consequence. I did not forget you by choice. I'd have held onto those memories, if I could have." Yet another reason to hate Thales for what he had done to her. Not only had he taken her family from her, but also the memory of the one good childhood friend she'd once had. The one...
She remembers that night at the Goddess Tower, when she'd spoken of her first love to Byleth. A young man of the Kingdom who's name she could not remember. A young lord's son. "I know that time meant a great deal to me." She says finally, and leaves it at that.