[ Steve gets it immediately, as he'd hoped the other man would, and Claude watches as he switches from some (mostly) relaxed enjoyment of testing out a shield to something much less so. Not that he blames him; it's the same feeling that's been rattling around his mind ever since overhearing that information and while dwelling on it since it wasn't like it was something easy to forget.
Even when hearing what he'd hoped to hear said aloud, thereby validating what was on his mind - Claude doesn't answer right away. He twirls the arrow in his hand a bit more while thinking carefully as this sort of thing demands to have happen. ]
If we convinced people to protest, we'd have to be sure that we had the resources to win and not put anyone in a worse position than we are now. That includes not just us but also the civilians since who knows what the government would do in response?
[ It's difficult to not think about Fodlan. Was this what Edelgard had felt like when deciding to take her fateful steps towards the future, towards changing Fodlan, overthrowing what had always been? Which helped skip several steps in his own plans to get to the same end result even though he hadn't cared for the methods of getting there. ]
If the Free Cities really is planning to take action despite whatever's come out of these negotiations that would be the end of peace as we know it, even if it's not much of peace now as it stands where one side's waiting for the other to blink first. This general saying he wants more soldiers, though? Certainly points to that.
Something heard by someone else that's doubly worrying when paired with that is that apparently Quilleth has been writing letters to have funds redirected to Libertas' rebuilding rather than military inventions. I don't know if that means the latter's ramped up, but it reminded me of when we saw the military on the move a while back without knowing what they were up to, exactly.
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Even when hearing what he'd hoped to hear said aloud, thereby validating what was on his mind - Claude doesn't answer right away. He twirls the arrow in his hand a bit more while thinking carefully as this sort of thing demands to have happen. ]
If we convinced people to protest, we'd have to be sure that we had the resources to win and not put anyone in a worse position than we are now. That includes not just us but also the civilians since who knows what the government would do in response?
[ It's difficult to not think about Fodlan. Was this what Edelgard had felt like when deciding to take her fateful steps towards the future, towards changing Fodlan, overthrowing what had always been? Which helped skip several steps in his own plans to get to the same end result even though he hadn't cared for the methods of getting there. ]
If the Free Cities really is planning to take action despite whatever's come out of these negotiations that would be the end of peace as we know it, even if it's not much of peace now as it stands where one side's waiting for the other to blink first. This general saying he wants more soldiers, though? Certainly points to that.
Something heard by someone else that's doubly worrying when paired with that is that apparently Quilleth has been writing letters to have funds redirected to Libertas' rebuilding rather than military inventions. I don't know if that means the latter's ramped up, but it reminded me of when we saw the military on the move a while back without knowing what they were up to, exactly.