>>5805595>Though there may have been a part of you that wanted to hide the truth from your already ailing friends, you knew it wouldn’t be right to let them go on with false hope. “I saw…evidence of her. I found one of her weapons that she used to kill Felix with. I believe she’s alive, but I don’t think she has any plans to defect.” It only made sense. Petra was the Princess of Brigid, and furthermore a hostage of the Empire. To think she’d defect for her old school friends was foolhardy. Even if she did want to escape Edelgard’s service, it would only be putting her homeland at risk. She had to do what she thought was right.“Ahh…that’s too bad.” Bernadetta sighs. “I really don’t want to fight her though. I mean…I don’t think I’d even stand a chance against her. If I saw her, I’d probably try to run away.”
“Petra’s probably there by herself now.” Dorothea says. “Now that Caspar and Linhardt are both gone. She might be the last Black Eagle left stuck with Edelgard and Hubert.”
>“There’s at least one more. I ran into Kate at Gronder. She didn’t seem happy to see me.”“Do you think you’ll fight her at Enbarr?” Dorothea asks, worried.
>“It’s beginning to look inevitable.”“Oh, Blair.” Dorothea grabs your hands in her own and squeezes tightly. “I was the one that killed Caspar.” She whispers hoarsely. “I tried my best to plead with him. To find some sort of reason for him to back down. He had his own reasons to fight though…and in the end I had to be the one to slay him so that I could protect Ferdie. I don’t know if there was some…magic combination of words I could have said in that moment. Something that would have gotten him to stop. If there was, they failed to come to me when I needed them. I don’t know if you can convince her to stand down. Just like Caspar, I don’t doubt she has her own reasons for continuing to fight. But I pray that you find the words you are looking for. Because I wouldn’t wish the way I feel on my worst enemy.”
After escorting Bernadetta and Dorothea inside the monastery, you make your way towards the audience chamber, where Byleth and Seteth are. The guard on duty announces your arrival, and you enter the room, where Leopold is in the middle of filling in the two of them on everything that had transpired in the last few weeks. Upon spotting you, the Professor greets you warmly.
“Blair.” She smiles, meeting you in an uncharacteristically warm embrace. She’d always been somewhat cold and distant during your time under her tutelage, but your most recent encounters with her have seen her showing far more emotion. “I hear we have you to thank for having a monastery to return home to. I can’t believe you managed to convince Sreng to turn against the Dukedom. You’ve done incredible.”
