If you die, you'd be subjecting those you leave behind to the pain of your loss.
[Physical pain, Byleth can withstand without flinching. Emotional pain...? Those were splinters that could never be teased out, digging and biting and aching no matter what one did, weeks, months or years into the future. Entertaining the hypothetical scenario of Jeralt's death made him feel an emotional agony so acute it was worse than any physical pain he had endured.
To experience it in reality...?
To realise that, at some point, Dimitri and Claude were gaining that state too: that considering the purely hypothetical scenario of their death was... painful, of the worst kind. In their current situation, with the Blight and the two cities slowly being torn apart? That hypothetical was inching dangerously closer to reality with each moment.
There were no words to explain this, though. Not in a way that Dimitri would understand.]
But it doesn't matter... I can see I won't change your mind on this stance. I can only ask that you try to prioritise your own safety when things continue to deteriorate.
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[Physical pain, Byleth can withstand without flinching. Emotional pain...? Those were splinters that could never be teased out, digging and biting and aching no matter what one did, weeks, months or years into the future. Entertaining the hypothetical scenario of Jeralt's death made him feel an emotional agony so acute it was worse than any physical pain he had endured.
To experience it in reality...?
To realise that, at some point, Dimitri and Claude were gaining that state too: that considering the purely hypothetical scenario of their death was... painful, of the worst kind. In their current situation, with the Blight and the two cities slowly being torn apart? That hypothetical was inching dangerously closer to reality with each moment.
There were no words to explain this, though. Not in a way that Dimitri would understand.]
But it doesn't matter... I can see I won't change your mind on this stance. I can only ask that you try to prioritise your own safety when things continue to deteriorate.