Since waking (weeks? months?) after the Tragedy, the person once known as Glenn Hector Fraldarius had had but one goal aside from recovering -- to return home. Of course, as home had never been a place but rather people, that had proved more difficult than even retraining her body and healing it herself. By the time she had healed enough that her good days were starting to outweigh her bad by even the slimmest of margins, the people she considered home were enrolled at the Officers Academy, and something like four years had passed. It was the last place she ever would have considered home; she had been alone and forced to conform to a gender she hated in a body she had never learned how to love.
But none of that mattered; she had an obligation to fulfill, and a soul-deep yearning to not be alone any longer. It was late in the day when she arrived in the town situated adjacent to the monastery, the last of a beautiful Garland Moon sunset painting th sky... and for a moment, she though she had only imagined the flash of bright, Gautier red hair in the crowd. At a second look, she realized that she hadn’t imagined it, and she wondered how long it would take Sylvain to realize he was being followed. With the sun quickly setting, she drew back the hood of her cloak for easier identification, exposing her face to the world. While her hair and eyes were still the same dark blue, she now wore her copious amounts of hair up in a braided bun, and a careful application of Faith magic had started to soften her features a bit.
Once close enough, and once they were mostly alone, she reached out to catch his shoulder. (Gently, carefully, but firmly; insistent, but not a threat.) “You sure know how to make a lady work for it, don’t you, Syl?” Despite being pitched up slightly, her voice sounded much the same as ever, and her gentle teasing was hopefully still familiar. When she had his attention, she manifested her Minor Crest of Fraldarius with her free hand, a shimmering teal-white sigil hovering above her gloved palm. But while her voice was sure, her eyes were worried and her smirk just a touch shaky at the edges. A part of her was terrified her best friend would reject her, that she had been gone too long, that it wasn’t fair to show up like this. If the only person she had truly been honest with, told that her name should have been Gwenn, hated her...
If that happened, she would be at a loss.