Of course. It wasn’t like she couldn’t believe it. The timeline, all these worlds and all these absences and all these events... even though she’d dedicated a good deal of her first year to attempting to understand it, she still couldn’t. It was beyond her training, her mind, her experiences with the harder sciences disguised as magic.
But even though a blip was still terrifying to her, for all its chaotic and unpredictable potential... she tries to swallow it. This isn’t about that-]
Then... how was your trip home?
[As if it were a vacation, a jaunt. As if she didn’t know that it could not have been, if he’d come here like this.]
I wish I could tell you it was all pleasant, but things aren't so great there. War is a very ugly thing, Sieglinde-san, but I hardly need to tell you that.
It would have been more responsible to insist I be sent back, but I thought I could figure out a way to turn the tides if I had more time. [And that was his excuse for moving on with Hathaway too. There's always an excuse. Always a problem to be solved.]
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Of course. It wasn’t like she couldn’t believe it. The timeline, all these worlds and all these absences and all these events... even though she’d dedicated a good deal of her first year to attempting to understand it, she still couldn’t. It was beyond her training, her mind, her experiences with the harder sciences disguised as magic.
But even though a blip was still terrifying to her, for all its chaotic and unpredictable potential... she tries to swallow it. This isn’t about that-]
Then... how was your trip home?
[As if it were a vacation, a jaunt. As if she didn’t know that it could not have been, if he’d come here like this.]
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It would have been more responsible to insist I be sent back, but I thought I could figure out a way to turn the tides if I had more time. [And that was his excuse for moving on with Hathaway too. There's always an excuse. Always a problem to be solved.]