[ she takes a sip of her own, not quite meeting his eye. ]
It never would have done either willingly. You did enough of that monster's dirty work to know that.
[ it comes levelly, in that all-too-neutral tone she defaults to. it isn't a question, and it isn't an accusation. dimitri might be more self-righteous than she strictly likes, but he's too smart to not at least understand, isn't he? byleth knows that this isn't how they'd agreed to approach this, but even so. ]
The Church will endure, in some new form and with no special status, with all of its temporal power stripped from it. But there was no fixing what Seiros built... only burning it away to build something new.
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Date: 2021-09-19 12:40 am (UTC)It never would have done either willingly. You did enough of that monster's dirty work to know that.
[ it comes levelly, in that all-too-neutral tone she defaults to. it isn't a question, and it isn't an accusation. dimitri might be more self-righteous than she strictly likes, but he's too smart to not at least understand, isn't he? byleth knows that this isn't how they'd agreed to approach this, but even so. ]
The Church will endure, in some new form and with no special status, with all of its temporal power stripped from it. But there was no fixing what Seiros built... only burning it away to build something new.