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What are you doing up so late, Mercie?
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I was having trouble sleeping. You too, Annie?
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Yep. I'm just so nervous about our battle tomorrow.
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Perhaps we should chat for a while to ease our nerves.
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That's a great idea! It reminds me of when we were students at the school of sorcery in Fhirdiad.
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When we shared a room and would stay up chattering until dawn?
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Exactly. It feels like that was forever ago.
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So much has happened in the meantime. We enrolled in the Officers Academy, the war began...
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But we've stuck together through it all, even after classes were suspended.
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Of course, I'm so clumsy, I felt like I was always getting in people's way while we were there.
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I couldn't have gotten through all this without you by my side.
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And I've relied on you just as much.
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In fact, it often feels like you're the one who's constantly coming to my aid lately.
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Remember when I got stuck in that bandit's trap?
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I thought I was done for, but you came to my rescue.
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Well, I wasn't going to leave you in a bandit trap!
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Although, I just ended up falling right in and getting wounded myself.
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I was so desperate to save you, I wasn't paying attention to what was around me.
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If not for you healing me, I don't know what would have happened!
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Well, we worked together and made it back in one piece, so all's well that ends well.
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Hehe! You know, I think we've always been like this.
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I feel like I can overcome anything so long as I'm with you.
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And I feel the same. I hope we will be friends forever.
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Oh, for sure! We'll be best friends until we're a couple of wrinkled old grannies!
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There are so many things I want to do with you, and so many places I want to go.
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I don't care if we're strolling through Derdriu or just window shopping—everything's better with you.
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I would love to go shopping in the capital, and then later...
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Say, Annie? Why don't we wait to talk about this until the war is over?
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What? Why?
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Because then we can each write down things we want to do as we think of them, and then show our lists to each other afterward. Doesn't that sound fun?
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That sounds very fun! We can even compete to see who has the longest list.
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I'm going to scribble all my plans down as soon as I get back to my room so I don't forget.
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But won't that keep you up longer?
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Oh, right! My insomnia! We were so busy chatting I forgot all about it.
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Thanks, Mercie. I feel a lot better now.
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My sentiments exactly. Good night, Annie. I'll see you tomorrow.