. summer's play

[boarddyd]

Who: Dimitri + Babysitters
When: April - May 2020
Where: Aefenglom, Outer City, Wildes
What: Catch all
Warnings: None (will be edited)

[ catch-all for april + may | contact @ tendopeshuu or here ]

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[boarddyd]

[The woman standing in the doorway is austere - she carries herself in a way that clashes with what's customary in Faerghus. Royal, but distant, without much of the warmth that so many of Dimitri's teachers and retainers had possessed.

He loved her all the same.

The young boy leaps to his feet, sending his chair careening to the ground. Mother! Interrupted by the sound of his own folly, the young Dimitri sheepishly resets his chair and adjusts his quill on the desk before running to her.

Arms open, for a hug, which she returns listlessly.

Dimitri watches silently, acknowledging Byleth's question with a flicker of eye contact. He only replies once his childhood self has settled into chatter with his mother.]

I don't believe there's any way for you to have met her - she was one of Duscur's many victims.

[He's aware of the resemblance to Edelgard and Arundel, and he anticipates more questions - he answers vaguely, unsure how much he can bring himself to reveal.]

[hegemonwings]

[ byleth's eyes don't leave the woman in front of her, so familiar, so... ]

... Her eyes, Dimitri. [ the unspoken question there hangs heavily. ] I know those eyes. I...