[He blushes at that description because, okay, he would do all those things.

But still!]

I may enjoy those kinds of books, Sylvain, but I know how reality usually is. Not every relationship I have has to be with a soulmate.

[And speaking of reality, Sylvain is right on all counts about the war. Edelgard's actions can't just be waved away there. Even if he has a feeling Dimitri would have tried, had she accepted his parlay.

Not that it's his decision.]

You're right. The Church at least would never allow her to go unpunished. [No one knows that more intimately than Ashe, after all.] Even here, I know Seteth isn't entirely comfortable with the state of things... but fighting would get us nowhere.