[ When Wanda's warmth wraps itself around her, Hilda curls into her instinctively. It continues to chip away at the front she's been putting up that she's been fine about this whole time. That, despite having made up with her best friend, discovering that feelings were returned, still didn't help heal the hurt that had sunk deep into her bones over the last several months.

Wanda's words and comfort aren't some magic spell that will change her greedy, conflicted heart. But they do help soothe it some. Reassure her that in some way her greed is okay even if it goes against everything she's tried to form herself into. Her arms go to wrap around her friend to draw closer, Wanda's faint floral scent enveloping her. ]

I feel like I am. [ And then quietly, almost ashamed - ] I think I like Sylvain too. But he's... [ Dead in their timeline. ] He and Claude can't ever be together in our timeline. Shouldn't it make more sense for them to be together here?