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What is Thales plotting? Will the capital be all right? If another impostor—
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Hmm? Who's there?
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Lady Edelgard? Is that you?
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Bernadetta? What are you doing here at this hour?
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Oh! Well, I was maybe sort of hoping to hole up here for a while.
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This is one of my go-to spots when I want to be alone.
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In that case, I apologize for intruding.
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Oh, it's really not a big deal or anything.
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Um, Lady Edelgard? Is everything all right? You seem, well, kind of down.
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If something's bothering you, I'd be happy to listen. If you don't mind talking to me, I mean.
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Thank you, but I wouldn't know where to begin. Once the emperor starts rattling off her many woes, you're likely to be trapped here forever.
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Um, actually, that isn't what I meant.
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Then what did you mean?
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Do you remember that time you told me how my curse was lifted?
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And then you started to say that yours was, too?
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Well, I've been worried that curse has been eating away at you the way mine did with me.
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Is that why you're here all alone in the middle of the night?
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Ngh...
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I wasn't expecting you to see right through me quite so easily.
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But you're right. Something is eating at me.
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There is an enemy I thought I'd fought and beaten, which I believed freed me from my curse.
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Alas, that was wishful thinking. My enemy is still alive—and worse yet, he is not alone.
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That sounds terrible. But I know how that feels— I've been struggling, too.
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If I stay outside too long, I end up being seized by this...panic that makes me want to hide away again.
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I guess I'm still learning how to deal with it.
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That's how life is, Bernadetta. We all bear our scars, but the only thing we can do is keep going.
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The idea that nestling up to someone and being kind will make all of their pain disappear is nothing more than fantasy. That's simply not how such things work.
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It's a mean ol' world, that's for sure.
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But that's no reason to despair. After all, what are we fighting for but a world in which people are no longer left with scars like yours and mine.
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A world in which the people who wish to stand out can do so, while those who remain on the sidelines have their choice honored as well.
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That is the future we're building together.
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Do you really think we can do it? Because if you do, I'm going to fight right alongside you, and then celebrate by locking myself in my room!
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I'd say that's perfectly acceptable, so long as you've taken care of the things you need to do.
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Aww, but doing things is the hard part! Stop being so difficult, world!