[Alice pauses mid-hand over and can't help but smile gently at that. There's something immensely warming in his words. The feeling of a job decently done? That might be it. Her heart does feel astoundingly full in this moment even if she has near worn herself out as well.]

I hope so.

[Once he's taken the foal Alice can't help but reach over and momentarily brush her fingers through the little one's hair.]

I don't doubt this world must have it's darker spots as every world has but I believe I'll miss this, as silly as it might sound.

[The children at home didn't look on her as kindly as these foals. The military was a source of broken hopes and crushed families for them. She didn't hold it against them of course, nor against the parents who equally distrusted any of the Imperial Army. How could she when she had seen the ugliness of the military itself first hand, the corruption ripe and thick.

She draws back, laughing at herself a little.]

Well, perhaps aside from cleaning up. I regret to inform you I've never had much hand in that.

[She's a noble, y'know. Even out in the field she's given preference as a member of one of the thirteen noble families.]