[It was precisely the same fear that she had of Ryoma being brought here. How he would react to seeing her face again after he...]
I would hope for nothing less. Your loyalty to Xander is relieving. [Xander needed people around him who he could trust implicitly and Corrin isn't even going to pretend that she's not glad it's Laslow instead of Peri. She didn't need that unsettlingly woman around. Corrin highly suspects that Peri would have just killed her on sight.]
I have no doubt you would follow his orders to the last. [Even if that did mean having to kill her.]
[And once again, Corrin's expression fell, some of the stiffness she had borrowed slipping away and the cracks beginning to show.] ...I don't think either of us made the right choice. We could have walked away. I didn't know that at the time, but, I wish with all of my heart that I could have known it and spared everyone the misery of what happened.
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I would hope for nothing less. Your loyalty to Xander is relieving. [Xander needed people around him who he could trust implicitly and Corrin isn't even going to pretend that she's not glad it's Laslow instead of Peri. She didn't need that unsettlingly woman around. Corrin highly suspects that Peri would have just killed her on sight.]
I have no doubt you would follow his orders to the last. [Even if that did mean having to kill her.]
[And once again, Corrin's expression fell, some of the stiffness she had borrowed slipping away and the cracks beginning to show.] ...I don't think either of us made the right choice. We could have walked away. I didn't know that at the time, but, I wish with all of my heart that I could have known it and spared everyone the misery of what happened.