Dimitri sat quietly, listening intently as Edelgard spoke. He took a few sips of his drink as he listened, though his gaze never turned away from her. There was no emotion on his face, aside from a little surprise at Edelgard's comment that she hadn't forgotten him "by choice." It was an odd way to phrase forgetting a memory, given that people rarely consciously choose to forget. It sounds almost as if she were made to forget.
"Five years ago, at the Academy. It was mere days after Jeralt's murder. Professor Byleth and I noticed a conversation occurring among the Flame Emperor, Monica, and a man neither of us knew. We did our best to eavesdrop, but we were noticed. The Flame Emperor threw a dagger at us, but narrowly missed. I picked it up and held onto it." He closed his eye for a few seconds before continuing. "Of course, that's when I began to suspect the Flame Emperor's true identity. I was in deep denial until that day in the Holy Tomb."
Dimitri paused to take a deep breath. The fight in the Holy Tomb was an awful memory for him, and he generally preferred not to think about it. Fortunately, given everything else Edelgard had to say, he didn't have much opportunity to dwell on it, as he sometimes did.
"I am glad that the time meant that much to you, as it did me. It also matches up with what your counterpart in my version of events told me the day we made parley." He hesitated a few seconds before continuing. "There is one thing that you said here that was left unmentioned then, though. You say you did not forget 'by choice.' It thus sounds as though you were forced to forget. Would that be correct?"
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Date: 2021-12-08 08:36 pm (UTC)"Five years ago, at the Academy. It was mere days after Jeralt's murder. Professor Byleth and I noticed a conversation occurring among the Flame Emperor, Monica, and a man neither of us knew. We did our best to eavesdrop, but we were noticed. The Flame Emperor threw a dagger at us, but narrowly missed. I picked it up and held onto it." He closed his eye for a few seconds before continuing. "Of course, that's when I began to suspect the Flame Emperor's true identity. I was in deep denial until that day in the Holy Tomb."
Dimitri paused to take a deep breath. The fight in the Holy Tomb was an awful memory for him, and he generally preferred not to think about it. Fortunately, given everything else Edelgard had to say, he didn't have much opportunity to dwell on it, as he sometimes did.
"I am glad that the time meant that much to you, as it did me. It also matches up with what your counterpart in my version of events told me the day we made parley." He hesitated a few seconds before continuing. "There is one thing that you said here that was left unmentioned then, though. You say you did not forget 'by choice.' It thus sounds as though you were forced to forget. Would that be correct?"