Felix is so taken aback that the pain of being slapped while his face is sunburnt to hell doesn't even register at first. He doesn't think he's ever seen Linhardt even get angry at all, much less voluntarily hit someone. All he can really do at first is stare while Linhardt rants.
No, Felix had never been to Remire until he was called upon to attack innocent civilians in the throes of some horrible dark magic that made them try to kill each other. If Linhardt thinks that alone wasn't enough to scar him for life, he's wrong.
Some of what the mage says makes sense. Dimitri's already told them everything he discovered about the conspiracy behind the Tragedy of Duscur, and Cornelia (or whoever replaced her) was clear about his stepmother being involved. Arundel wasn't subtle about his taunting, either.
But other things make no sense at all.
"...ow" is Felix's first response to any of that, as the sting finally gets persistent enough that he notices it. He brings a hand up to his face, but that doesn't even help; touching it only makes it worse. He's never going out into the sun again.
"Huh, I'm impressed. I didn't think you had enough strength in those spindly arms of yours to even take a swing." Strangely, this might be the most cordial thing Felix has said to Linhardt since he sat down; he's not mocking, he's legitimately and pleasantly surprised. Go figure.
But then he narrows his eyes. "You can't possibly claim Edelgard doesn't support them with a straight face. Cornelia took Fhirdiad in your Emperor's name. It was the Hresvelg banner flying over the palace while that monster was in it. If you really didn't know that, maybe you should start thinking seriously about those assassination plans of yours."
The jab about Seiros just gets him blinking, though. Felix doesn't even have any evidence that what happened with Miklan had anything to do with those shapeshifters at all, but he assumes it did, considering everything else they've done. And it isn't the thing that upsets him most, nor why he hated Cornelia, but he's not about to talk about Dimitri again in this conversation.
"What are you talking about? What does Seiros have to do with Sylvain? Or anything else?"
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No, Felix had never been to Remire until he was called upon to attack innocent civilians in the throes of some horrible dark magic that made them try to kill each other. If Linhardt thinks that alone wasn't enough to scar him for life, he's wrong.
Some of what the mage says makes sense. Dimitri's already told them everything he discovered about the conspiracy behind the Tragedy of Duscur, and Cornelia (or whoever replaced her) was clear about his stepmother being involved. Arundel wasn't subtle about his taunting, either.
But other things make no sense at all.
"...ow" is Felix's first response to any of that, as the sting finally gets persistent enough that he notices it. He brings a hand up to his face, but that doesn't even help; touching it only makes it worse. He's never going out into the sun again.
"Huh, I'm impressed. I didn't think you had enough strength in those spindly arms of yours to even take a swing." Strangely, this might be the most cordial thing Felix has said to Linhardt since he sat down; he's not mocking, he's legitimately and pleasantly surprised. Go figure.
But then he narrows his eyes. "You can't possibly claim Edelgard doesn't support them with a straight face. Cornelia took Fhirdiad in your Emperor's name. It was the Hresvelg banner flying over the palace while that monster was in it. If you really didn't know that, maybe you should start thinking seriously about those assassination plans of yours."
The jab about Seiros just gets him blinking, though. Felix doesn't even have any evidence that what happened with Miklan had anything to do with those shapeshifters at all, but he assumes it did, considering everything else they've done. And it isn't the thing that upsets him most, nor why he hated Cornelia, but he's not about to talk about Dimitri again in this conversation.
"What are you talking about? What does Seiros have to do with Sylvain? Or anything else?"