Believe it or not, you'll see it for yourself whenever you're sent back from this place.
[He isn't going to attempt to convince Felix further - he'd given him the true sequence of events, and if he wanted more details, then Sylvain knows he would have asked outright.
But... it's war. The details are never pleasant. He wouldn't want them, either.
And there's not much he can do to convince Felix's heart of the truth, not without going into Rodrigue's sacrifice - and did he even know of that? - and what it meant, how hard Dimitri took it... He'd have to see it for himself, or see what changes - subtle or not - Dimitri's shift had brought in Sylvain. Felix's heart was never easily shifted, after all, and he knows that very well.
So he'll take the compromise on the food - or will appear to, at least, for now. What he'll actually do is shave off bits of meat until he's had about half of it before offering it back, give that leg a chance to get Felix's appetite working, but pressing the issue now is just asking his friend to be contrary about it.]
He is. He's trying, now, at least... so I know he'll turn out to be a good king, if we all get through this.
[Pretty words - and said with a weight and gravitas that show Sylvain believes everything he's said, but... pretty words only go so far, and right now, when it's just the two of them?
He can afford to let emotion show a little more, can admit to things they've both known for years, now.]
I know you've noticed that I fight like I want to die. [When he's not breezing through training like he doesn't have a care in the world, at any rate.] I'm... well, I'm still doing that, because it's worked for me so far, but... I'm not hanging my survival on just our promise anymore.
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[He isn't going to attempt to convince Felix further - he'd given him the true sequence of events, and if he wanted more details, then Sylvain knows he would have asked outright.
But... it's war. The details are never pleasant. He wouldn't want them, either.
And there's not much he can do to convince Felix's heart of the truth, not without going into Rodrigue's sacrifice - and did he even know of that? - and what it meant, how hard Dimitri took it... He'd have to see it for himself, or see what changes - subtle or not - Dimitri's shift had brought in Sylvain. Felix's heart was never easily shifted, after all, and he knows that very well.
So he'll take the compromise on the food - or will appear to, at least, for now. What he'll actually do is shave off bits of meat until he's had about half of it before offering it back, give that leg a chance to get Felix's appetite working, but pressing the issue now is just asking his friend to be contrary about it.]
He is. He's trying, now, at least... so I know he'll turn out to be a good king, if we all get through this.
[Pretty words - and said with a weight and gravitas that show Sylvain believes everything he's said, but... pretty words only go so far, and right now, when it's just the two of them?
He can afford to let emotion show a little more, can admit to things they've both known for years, now.]
I know you've noticed that I fight like I want to die. [When he's not breezing through training like he doesn't have a care in the world, at any rate.] I'm... well, I'm still doing that, because it's worked for me so far, but... I'm not hanging my survival on just our promise anymore.