But -- why, I remember it clearly as well! We had a grand feast in celebration. Claude with his schemes and the Professor with his strategems had pulled us through. You know the Golden Deer are often the underdogs in the fight.
[Hilda's brother aside. They're not even part of the name. Lysithea has stopped walking altogether now.]
We really grew together that day. We are the Alliance, you know - we share no commonality besides that we must band together to be on an even playing field with the Empire and the Kingdom. But for the first time, it seemed as if we had found ourselves.
[The gears are turning - her mind, disoriented at first, is leaping to grasp the insinuations of this turn of events.]
...Dimitri, you say the Professor chose the Blue Lions?
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[Hilda's brother aside. They're not even part of the name. Lysithea has stopped walking altogether now.]
We really grew together that day. We are the Alliance, you know - we share no commonality besides that we must band together to be on an even playing field with the Empire and the Kingdom. But for the first time, it seemed as if we had found ourselves.
[The gears are turning - her mind, disoriented at first, is leaping to grasp the insinuations of this turn of events.]
...Dimitri, you say the Professor chose the Blue Lions?