I assure you. I understand that better than most. I merely wanted to determine your … intentions toward those I have spoken with from your shared background.

And know that whether I speak of them, or you, or even Edelgard - whom I had only met briefly before - I would urge peace. This place is terrible enough, a torment enough, without bringing old battles and opening old wounds.

If I am granted a second chance here - if I have been forgiven for all that I had done and intended to do - so could she, and with better justifications for that sympathy and forgiveness than I. I believe that’s the foundation for the relationships she’d built on the Nameless Island.

And I would hear more of your thoughts on your side of the conflict as well. I would know your name and hopefully meet Edelgard in a place that is not this hell, someday.

But if you should raise weapon or magic against any I care for, this regard between veterans of war will be shattered.