[It was a complicated topic, one that Byleth felt ill-equipped to properly navigate. He looked down at their clasped hands and away.]
Dimitri. Sometimes I wonder at your capacity to trust, or at least, grant opportunities to allow that trust to naturally grow. In my timeline...
[He paused. Though he had glossed over that he had been hired initially by the Empire during that night where they had tried (and aborted due to Byleth's irrational emotions on the subject) to exchange differences between their timelines, he hadn't truly gone into depth about it. How he had cross blades with Dimitri multiple times - how he had tried to legitimately kill Dimitri multiple times.
He was a target then, that was all Byleth had viewed him as, and afterwards, an employer. Claude didn't come with this awkward baggage - the leader of Leicester had never been one of his targets and just a name he heard bandied about by Shez - but while the Dimitri of his time had swept aside the previous murder attempts in favour of pragmatism, he wasn't sure how this Dimitri would react to them being enemies once, as his Byleth had been a staunch ally and friend.
Was there even any point in bringing it up? A part of him felt disingenuous about it, being so coy, but... what purpose would it serve but to potentially drive a wedge between them?]
...nevermind. I think I may've drank too much. My thoughts have gone to strange places.
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[It was a complicated topic, one that Byleth felt ill-equipped to properly navigate. He looked down at their clasped hands and away.]
Dimitri. Sometimes I wonder at your capacity to trust, or at least, grant opportunities to allow that trust to naturally grow. In my timeline...
[He paused. Though he had glossed over that he had been hired initially by the Empire during that night where they had tried (and aborted due to Byleth's irrational emotions on the subject) to exchange differences between their timelines, he hadn't truly gone into depth about it. How he had cross blades with Dimitri multiple times - how he had tried to legitimately kill Dimitri multiple times.
He was a target then, that was all Byleth had viewed him as, and afterwards, an employer. Claude didn't come with this awkward baggage - the leader of Leicester had never been one of his targets and just a name he heard bandied about by Shez - but while the Dimitri of his time had swept aside the previous murder attempts in favour of pragmatism, he wasn't sure how this Dimitri would react to them being enemies once, as his Byleth had been a staunch ally and friend.
Was there even any point in bringing it up? A part of him felt disingenuous about it, being so coy, but... what purpose would it serve but to potentially drive a wedge between them?]
...nevermind. I think I may've drank too much. My thoughts have gone to strange places.