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Wait, what?
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Bernadetta, is that a letter from your mother?
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Huh? Oh, Lady Edelgard. Yes, she wrote me from the capital.
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Wait, how did you know that? Are you screening my mail? Spying on my correspondence?
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Bernadetta. Is there anyone else who would write you?
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Of course there is! There's...um...that guy?
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Wait... I don't have any friends. I don't even have any family! I don't have anybody!
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Poor Bernie's all alone in this cold, cruel world! Waaaaah!
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Easy, Bernadetta. You have plenty of friends.
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They simply don't need to write to you because you're fighting in the same army.
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Wait, really? Well that's a relief.
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Also, how can you claim to have no family when your mother writes you regularly? That's certainly more than I can say.
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Oh, right. I forgot about your, um...parent situation. Guess I shouldn't be complaining, huh?
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It's fine. Just be thankful that your mother is in good health, and make sure to write back so she doesn't worry.
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I always do—pages and pages!
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That reminds me, have you heard from your father?
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I'm sure he had much adjusting to do after I installed him in Garreg Mach as the head of the Southern Church.
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Nothing from him, but my mother keeps me up to date in her letters.
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She has his attendants send her regular reports.
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The last update was something like, "Your father is so scared of the Central Church's assassins, he's locked himself away up in the third-story reception hall."
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"They have to drag him out kicking and screaming whenever it's time to deal with clerical affairs."
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I'm certain I heard a similar tale when another noble first relocated to Garreg Mach.
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Really? Huh. Oh, but the locking himself in his room part sure sounds a lot like me, doesn't it.
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Yes, although you've come a long way from the reclusive, shy girl you used to be.
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Back at the Officers Academy, you used to take your shunning of people to something of an extreme.
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Do you really think I'm that different now? It's hard for me to tell.
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Maybe knowing that my father has started hiding from the world helps, though.
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Now I don't have to stay inside to avoid seeing him, you know?
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One might say your curse has been lifted. Just like mine...
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Wait, hang on. What's your curse?
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Nothing. Please ignore what I said.
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Oh, come on! You can't leave me in suspense like this!