[Hearing both Hubert’s and Edelgard’s reassurances that Hubert is fine, relief, along with everything that has happened tonight, makes the tension that returned to her body when she was awake drop again. If Edelgard was only going by how Leslie felt in her arms, she might be forgiven for thinking that Leslie fell unconscious again, but Leslie is still awake. It’s just exhaustion that leaves her body reluctant to do any of the work of supporting herself while she currently has Edelgard to do it for her.]
Yes.
[No matter how guilty she might feel, both from what happened tonight and from the lower level of guilt that is just almost always there in the background from years of conditioning, she has to admit that she’s too exhausted to do almost anything other than rest right now.
But there is one thing she doesn’t want to put off: an apology.]
I’m really sorry for making you worry, Lady Edelgard. And Marquis Vestra, too. ...I was really stupid.
[Now that the panic’s worn off, she can look back and realize that the choices she made that lead her to the Nuckelavee in the Outer City were objectively bad choices, whatever her intentions.]
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Yes.
[No matter how guilty she might feel, both from what happened tonight and from the lower level of guilt that is just almost always there in the background from years of conditioning, she has to admit that she’s too exhausted to do almost anything other than rest right now.
But there is one thing she doesn’t want to put off: an apology.]
I’m really sorry for making you worry, Lady Edelgard. And Marquis Vestra, too. ...I was really stupid.
[Now that the panic’s worn off, she can look back and realize that the choices she made that lead her to the Nuckelavee in the Outer City were objectively bad choices, whatever her intentions.]