[He pauses to put away the wand toy and release Oghma the Glaceon instead, so he and Pan can run off and entertain themselves. That done, he slips his hands into his pockets and fixes his gaze on something random.]
You might recall when I told you that after the Tragedy of Duscur, my father left our territory for the capital to take care of Dimitri. And insisted that I stay at home. I hadn't seen Dimitri at all since before Duscur. All I knew was that he'd been badly injured, and my old man wouldn't let me see him.
[He shrugs, like it's no big deal.] My uncle was...inattentive. So one night I took a horse from the stables and set out for Fhirdiad on my own. I thought about going to Gautier first and asking Sylvain to come with me, but it would have taken much longer. I wasn't a very good rider and didn't know enough to erase the tracks in the snow, so once the overnight staff told my uncle I was gone, it didn't take him that long to find me.
[And his uncle chastised him for being irresponsible, and he cried the whole way back to Fraldarius demanding to see Dimitri and getting ignored. Ugh. Felix's jaw clenches just thinking about it.]
He told my father, of course, who returned for a few days to lecture me about how with my brother gone it was my responsibility to stay and learn how to govern the territory while Dimitri recovered.
[Never mind that Felix was thirteen and alone, and had lost his brother and nearly his best friend mere months ago only to have his father tell him that it was such a glorious sacrifice.]
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[He pauses to put away the wand toy and release Oghma the Glaceon instead, so he and Pan can run off and entertain themselves. That done, he slips his hands into his pockets and fixes his gaze on something random.]
You might recall when I told you that after the Tragedy of Duscur, my father left our territory for the capital to take care of Dimitri. And insisted that I stay at home. I hadn't seen Dimitri at all since before Duscur. All I knew was that he'd been badly injured, and my old man wouldn't let me see him.
[He shrugs, like it's no big deal.] My uncle was...inattentive. So one night I took a horse from the stables and set out for Fhirdiad on my own. I thought about going to Gautier first and asking Sylvain to come with me, but it would have taken much longer. I wasn't a very good rider and didn't know enough to erase the tracks in the snow, so once the overnight staff told my uncle I was gone, it didn't take him that long to find me.
[And his uncle chastised him for being irresponsible, and he cried the whole way back to Fraldarius demanding to see Dimitri and getting ignored. Ugh. Felix's jaw clenches just thinking about it.]
He told my father, of course, who returned for a few days to lecture me about how with my brother gone it was my responsibility to stay and learn how to govern the territory while Dimitri recovered.
[Never mind that Felix was thirteen and alone, and had lost his brother and nearly his best friend mere months ago only to have his father tell him that it was such a glorious sacrifice.]