post-dungeon regroup

[discutio]

[Obviously, they had to pull back and recover; Phoenix thought it would be best to head to the pseudo-headquarters in Invidia and settle back into the mansion to recover as well as consolidate what they all knew. There was a lot to get through, and a lot of recovery to be done by some of them. He'd need to talk to Etoile, thank Ariel, thank Medic again--]

[...But for now, he just about immediately collapsed on a couch and decided he would exist there for a while. You're on your own for food this time, kids.]

Comments

[swordofajerk]

Yes, obviously, what the hell else would I mean?

[crypddyd]

... what memories I have of my living self are not of a good man, Sword. If you told me he fled his role in some way I would not argue it.

[swordofajerk]

Well, apparently you got your shit together enough to become king. So. There's that.

[He sighs.]

And then died to some fucking monster.

[crypddyd]

... a monster.

Tell me, before I died did I at least manage to kill that woman?

[swordofajerk]

What woman? [Thinking, thinking...] Pale hair? Pale skin?

[crypddyd]

Yes. Edelgard.

[There is such venom in his voice it's palpable]

[swordofajerk]

[Sword isn't sure, if he's being honest. The monster might not have been this woman, or it might have been, and he has no way of knowing who killed her.

But. Well.]

Yes. She wasn't human in the end, but she was dead or dying.