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Hmm... Where has it gone?
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Lin, you got a minute?
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Oh, Dorothea. Are you done being alone?
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Please don't say it like that...
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I let the gossipers get to me...and I snapped at you. Can you forgive me?
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You have my forgiveness, although I remember no wrong doing on your part.
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Oh, well... Thank you, I guess.
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So do you feel better?
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About the gossip? Not even a little bit. I... I need someone to talk to, and I figure it should be you.
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Oh? OK. What is it?
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About the things that those soldiers were saying... The truth is, I agree with them.
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Selfish as I am, I curried favor with a noble so I could enroll here. An orphan like me, here. Crazy, right?
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Dorothea
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Everyone else here is noble or rich or both. I don't deserve any of this. Honestly, I don't deserve to be here at all.
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And now, to be leading troops as one of the professor's generals... I'm way out of my league.
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I'm doing the best I can, of course, but sometimes I wonder if it's enough...
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Dorothea, if I may offer a bit of advice. You have no reason to face anything you do not wish to.
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If the past distresses you, then just let it go. It's as simple as that.
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But it's my past. You can't escape your past...
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You've probably overcome a lot of tough times, haven't you?
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I think that's incredible, really, but why not just let go of the suffering and run away from the memories that cause you pain?
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I suspect you'll find it a better way of living. I know I do.
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That's not living, Lin. It's running away. If I leave my hardships behind, then all of that means nothing.
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Linhardt
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Good point. Well said. Yet I propose ignoring your past changes nothing of who you are today.
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I see before me a great woman who should not be bothered by idle gossip.
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Even if you dropped everything and took a nap for a thousand years, you would still be you.
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Dorothea
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What an example... I don't quite get it, but I am a bit envious of you.
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Dorothea
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Still, I can't live the way you do.
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At least try it. Go take a nap where a noble will see you. Give them something to talk about.
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Heh. Maybe I will.