❛ You would have gone without me ? ❜
The question is small and meek – not an emotion Lelouch is used to associating with Heidi. He looks at her, confused. “…What are you talking about?” She who taught him how to get along with horses, who laughed at the nobles alongside him, who looked at him as if he were a person and not just another name to be worn around someone’s neck. “The monastery will fall soon,” he’s seen the signs. There is too much action. The Flame Emperor is planning something, and they will not be spared in his wrath.
Lelouch plans to disappear before they get the chance. He can’t endanger Nunnally. But Heidi knows him too well now…perhaps it was his lack of conversation that gave him away. “I want you to come with me,” he replies, squaring his shoulders to face his companion. “You don’t deserve to be a pawn in their game.”
