Seteth & Catherine C

Seteth
How are you, Catherine? You look well enough.

Catherine
Hm? Oh yes, I'm fine. Never better.

Seteth
That is good. I cannot help but be concerned, given your tendency toward incautious behavior.

Seteth
While boldness can be a virtue, I do hope you will bear in mind that recklessness is not.

Seteth
A moment's negligence can lead to a mortal wound for even the most skilled fighter.

Catherine
You worry too much. If they saw me in action, the wounds themselves would cower!

Seteth
That is precisely the attitude that worries me. Especially given your history. You have been gravely injured before, as you no doubt recall.

Catherine
Me, "gravely injured"? When did that happen?

Seteth
You mean you have forgotten? It was during your days as a student at the Officers Academy.

Seteth
There was an excursion—a monster hunt. You charged ahead and left your fellow students behind.

Seteth
You ended up alone and surrounded. You almost died. Do you truly not remember?

Catherine
Are you sure? All I remember is cutting down monsters left and right.

Seteth
That is true enough. But you nearly bled to death in the aftermath.

Seteth
The archbishop was so concerned for your life that she tended your wounds personally.

Catherine
Oh! That was when that happened! Finally, it all fits together.

Catherine
Lady Rhea looking after me—now that I remember clearly.

Catherine
That was the first time she ever spoke to me.

Catherine
I was lying on the ground, caked in mud, and she gently picked me up, even stroked my hair...

Catherine
The emotions were so overpowering that they must have just cleared away my memory of the whole incident.

Catherine
So, it was during the monster hunt! Thanks, Seteth. That's been bothering me for ages.

Seteth
That is not quite why I brought it up...

Catherine
Come to think of it, Lady Rhea hasn't healed me since then.