[ In that strange way dreams work, Felix is only vaguely aware of another person in the cavern with him. Only when he speaks does he recognize him by his voice.
Felix's heart shoots into his throat, and he whips around, white as a sheet, sharp canine ears pointing straight up and a wolf's tail puffed up behind him. ]
Boar.
[ He snaps it sharply, the word leaving his lips before he even thinks twice about it. Quick as a flash—quicker, perhaps, than Felix ever was in Fódlan—he closes the space between them, snatching the algae from his hands with a low growl before he can, goddess forbid, kill himself eating some unknown plant life down here in the dark. ]
What are you doing? Don't be a fool. You're—you—
[ It's like seeing a ghost, twice-over—the boy who used to be the boy he knew, younger, less haggard, more possessed of himself than Felix remembers him back in Fódlan. And even though Felix knows, rationally, that Dimitri didn't choose this, that this dream means the city is on the hunt again and has yanked him from home whenever it damn well pleases, he can't stop the frustration bubbling up in his chest at the sight of him. ]
I.
Felix's heart shoots into his throat, and he whips around, white as a sheet, sharp canine ears pointing straight up and a wolf's tail puffed up behind him. ]
Boar.
[ He snaps it sharply, the word leaving his lips before he even thinks twice about it. Quick as a flash—quicker, perhaps, than Felix ever was in Fódlan—he closes the space between them, snatching the algae from his hands with a low growl before he can, goddess forbid, kill himself eating some unknown plant life down here in the dark. ]
What are you doing? Don't be a fool. You're—you—
[ It's like seeing a ghost, twice-over—the boy who used to be the boy he knew, younger, less haggard, more possessed of himself than Felix remembers him back in Fódlan. And even though Felix knows, rationally, that Dimitri didn't choose this, that this dream means the city is on the hunt again and has yanked him from home whenever it damn well pleases, he can't stop the frustration bubbling up in his chest at the sight of him. ]
Why are you here? Like this?