[ ah. that was the situation, then. the others had led her to expect something like this. but—the wrong color. as if there had been anything right about what the church did to her to make the change possible in the first place. her gaze snaps up to meet felix's now, and the warmth that was there is gone. there is more of the ashen demon in that look than she's ever given one of her students, nothing but ice and a threat. even in her current state. ]

We came to Fhirdiad to urge Seiros's surrender, after we shattered the Kingdom's army. And rather than do the sane thing, the Archbishop responded by burning the city, Felix.

[ this is still uh. very fresh, for her. ]