(To be fair though, Claude will probably spend the next five years skipping sleep to focus on w a r and keeping his own dang country together during it all but that's fine. No one has to know how hard Claude really works when no one is looking, especially back home once he claims his title and becomes a true leader.)

They sound like a good teacher. Make sure to listen to them. They'll help you get through anything if you pay attention.

(Speaking from experience, there. But hmm...)

Maybe... (It's kind of amazing how much he's opened up in two months here compared to all of his years in Fodlan.) There's someone back home, my professor. She isn't as direct as either of you but she always had a way of drawing me out towards her.

It was nice, really. (And he laughs lightly,) She was the kind of person I wanted to be more myself around. Because I could be myself around her.

But I guess I needed a bigger push, still.

(And he found that push here.)