[ Well, there certainly isn't any point in being coy now, is there? He's like a wyvern with a bone. Lucina breathes in, steeling herself, and then answers, eyes open - ]
Not at first.
At the beginning, it was merely war. I - I could understand Plegia's anger, despite how much it cost me. My grandfather had not been a gentle ruler. Perhaps if he had been, things may have turned out differently.
[ Instead, Chrom's father - Emmeryn's father - her own grandfather - had conquered through bloodshed and smiled, toothy, like a skull, through it all. It's no wonder that Chrom strove to make friends with everyone he met, to the point of jeopardising his own safety with (what Lucina considered, and still somewhat considers) undeserved loyalty. ]
Turning their army as they did... I don't understand that at all. For every soldier of theirs we had to put down, they rose two more. They weren't alive. I knew that by looking at them. Their eyes, the smell - [ Well. Least said, soonest mended. ] When you told me you weren't alive, it brought back memories of that time.
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Not at first.
At the beginning, it was merely war. I - I could understand Plegia's anger, despite how much it cost me. My grandfather had not been a gentle ruler. Perhaps if he had been, things may have turned out differently.
[ Instead, Chrom's father - Emmeryn's father - her own grandfather - had conquered through bloodshed and smiled, toothy, like a skull, through it all. It's no wonder that Chrom strove to make friends with everyone he met, to the point of jeopardising his own safety with (what Lucina considered, and still somewhat considers) undeserved loyalty. ]
Turning their army as they did... I don't understand that at all. For every soldier of theirs we had to put down, they rose two more. They weren't alive. I knew that by looking at them. Their eyes, the smell - [ Well. Least said, soonest mended. ] When you told me you weren't alive, it brought back memories of that time.