He gives him the time he needs to digest it. It is a lot. It's always a lot. It's a lot to even remember.
"Maybe they want to get to know you. They're still your friends. They don't share the same memories, but at their core, they are still the people who love you. When you strip away five years of memory, you still have everything up to that point. I wish I could rectify what happened- I can tell you're in pain."
He wilts a little in his seat.
"There are separate timelines for how things happened for me as well. There's a Byleth that helped Claude. There's even one that helped Edelgard. You are not unwanted. I can only tell you that. It's up to you if you decide to believe me or not. I'm sorry for how things worked out. I don't know... if you're better off like this, not having been tortured or exiled or touched the brink of insanity, or having faced all that and excised it. But you seem coiled. Wound up like a spring with nowhere to go."
He thinks about his next words carefully.
"I am extending my hand to you. You have the means to take it. You don't have to be alone. I won't pull it away. You don't have to do anything right now. But it's there. I'm here."
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"Maybe they want to get to know you. They're still your friends. They don't share the same memories, but at their core, they are still the people who love you. When you strip away five years of memory, you still have everything up to that point. I wish I could rectify what happened- I can tell you're in pain."
He wilts a little in his seat.
"There are separate timelines for how things happened for me as well. There's a Byleth that helped Claude. There's even one that helped Edelgard. You are not unwanted. I can only tell you that. It's up to you if you decide to believe me or not. I'm sorry for how things worked out. I don't know... if you're better off like this, not having been tortured or exiled or touched the brink of insanity, or having faced all that and excised it. But you seem coiled. Wound up like a spring with nowhere to go."
He thinks about his next words carefully.
"I am extending my hand to you. You have the means to take it. You don't have to be alone. I won't pull it away. You don't have to do anything right now. But it's there. I'm here."