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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    Sitting by the monastery pond in the middle of winter, Claude contemplates over the happenings over his time spent at the academy coming close to a year.

    He also gets a visit from an unexpected guest, namely one Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, and together they spend their early morning in each other's company.

    Little did they both know how much this interaction would change the course of their future.

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    24 Dec 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 30

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    As much as Claude detested his grandfather for trying to mold him into the image of someone Claude was definitely not, he understood the importance of his tutoring. While Lord Riegan had viewed it as a method for trying to correct the mistakes in Claude’s upbringing, Claude viewed them like survival lessons. Oswald was trying to wash Claude’s background white, forbidding him from speaking ‘that barbaric language’ and even forcing Claude to change his name, all for the sake of propriety in a culture that Claude did not understand but was being rapidly made to. He was being catapulted into a world he knew nothing about and he needed to learn how to blend in, fast. He was lucky that he was a quick learner and that he picked up most things with relative ease; a jack-of-all-trades, though a master of none, he was passable.

    Except when it came to dancing.

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    19 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 26

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    “My apologies, but I do not understand what we are doing here, exactly,” the Prince said. Lorenz let out a frustrated huff, lifting his quill and pointing the end of it right at Dimitri’s nose.

    “You would not believe what I have had to endure this month,” he said, heated and annoyed. “All the horrible poetry and prose being served up around campus to the poor ladies and gentleman of Garreg Mach. I am sick of it. Sick of it, I say!” he declared, slamming his fist down on the table. “You are the first person in this place who has shown even the slightest spark of promise, and by the Goddess I will not let this opportunity pass me by!” he said. “Now, speak of your muse! With your natural talent and my expertise, we will soon have crafted a poem to rival even the works of Saint Cichol!”

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    16 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    Something was terribly off about Dimitri and Claude desperately wants to get to the bottom of it.

    He gets to the bottom of it and the solved mystery is akin to a gut punch.

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    16 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    “Say,” Claude starts before his fellow house leader can leave, “have you had any weird dreams lately?”

    “What?” Dimitri squints at him, freezing in his place.

    When it becomes apparent that he’s not getting more than that, Claude shrugs, “I had a weird dream myself, was wondering if it’s something in the air.”

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    16 Dec 2024