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[sentinaels]

❛ i suppose the world would be less interesting without you in it. ❜ // for claude~

               ❛ HIGH PRAISE COMING FROM YOU, your majesty. ❜ the atmosphere at their little table is only slightly less tense for it, but he expects nothing less from negotiations disguised as teatime. claude idly twirls his spoon in his cup, leveling a smile that could almost have been sincere at her. ❛ i take it you haven’t gotten hubert to poison my tea, then? ❜ 

KING OF SCARS SENTENCE STARTERS. / @bldstndflr

[almyrn]

      @bldstndflr​     /     PINTEREST   SENTENCE   STARTERS     /     ACCEPTING   !

                   ‘       I   HAVE   POLISHED   THIS   ANGER   &   NOW   IT’S   A   KNIFE   .       ‘

                      THERE    WAS    A   STUTTER    IN    CLAUDE’S     breath    when    he    sucked   air   in   ,   there   was   not   much   he   knew   about   edelgard’s   past   ,   little   he   could   find   out   ,   even   less   that   she   had   told   him   .   &   still   there   were   several   instances   that   reminded   claude   :   THAT   COULD   HAVE   BEEN   YOU   .   one   decision   altered   ,   his   parents   embraces   having   been   devoid   of   its   love     ——     who   could   say   if   claude   was   still   the   one   celebrated   as   the   one   to   bring   unification   for   them   all   ?   why   couldn’t   he   be   the   man   to   extend   the   war   across   all   borders   ?

                      ❛     i   know   .   &   my   heart   is   breaking   for   you   .     ❜     he   sighed   .   the   situation   was   too   precarious   for   careless   words   .   to   even   speak   with   edelgard   on   neutral   ground   ,   a   privilege   he   did   not   take   lightly   .     (     you   saw   the   fate   the    opposition    had    to    suffer    ,    dimitri      ——      )    &    despite    what    some    may   think   ,   he   planned   to   extend   the   duration   of   his   life   for   quite   a   few   more   years   .     ❛     if   it’s   a   war   you   need   ,   i   can’t   talk   you   out   of   it   .   but   help   me   understand   for   it   seems   little   more   than   mindless   slaughter   from   where   i   am   standing   .     ❜

[imperialvestra]

“ the memories hurt the most. ” 

The pain of it is more than Hubert can imagine. He knows only what Edelgard has told him of the experiments, of her siblings being taken from her one by one. Fury boils inside. They ought to strike back, to subject every last one of her tormentors to the same anguish. It is no more than they deserve. His fingers itch. If he could tear them limb from limb, bring them all to their knees and make them weep, make them beg for forgiveness--

But he cannot. Not now. Not yet. One day, vengeance will be so very sweet. 

For now, his hands are gentle as they alight on Edelgard’s shoulders. She stands at her window, though from the distance in her eyes, he expects there’s rather little of the night she truly sees. He is firm, steadfast and solid behind her. “I know, Lady Edelgard,” he says, voice soft, little more than a whisper. “Are the dreams plaguing you again?”

There is little he can do to ease the pain, a failing he can’t forgive himself for. It is in the past. Nothing can be done to change it. The only way is forward. “Would you like to speak of it? Of them--before. We rarely dwell on them. Perhaps it might ease your mind.” 

[aethele]

@bldstndflr​  ;  “  please, tell me you have a plan.  ”

“     a plan ?   ――  not really,   no.   honestly,   i was just going to ride to fhirdiad and sneak into the estate.   or perhaps i will pretend to be a suitor,   hoping to marry his daughter.   i have not yet decided.     ”     moonlight from above parses through midnight clouds,   flickering over the silhouette of his horse as he saddles it.   ferdinand had hoped to leave and return without notice,   to steal away in the deep dark night.   his decision to make for fhirdiad had been immediate the moment mercedes confided her predicament.  

... that his emperor would still be awake so late  is only a minor irritation. 

he pulls the last cinch tight around his horse’s belly and tests the hold of his laced-up saddle bag with a tug.     “     there is no need to worry,   edelgard.   it will be easy for someone like me,   and i will be back long before the end of the month,   i promise.   and i will be very careful.     ”    

he catches the saddle horn in one hand,  ready to mount   ――   then pauses,  chin thrown over his shoulder to her.   his eyes meet hers cast in a honeyed marble,   thick and unyielding.     “     you are not going to stop me,   are you ?     ”