[Wry, but there's a point there, as the nobility does still exist, and Lorenz knows firsthand how selfish and power-hungry most of them are. The Alliance has its own mess of problems to still be resolved, in whatever will become of the continent after the war...
But yes, theoretically. Politics are a mess as always but they're a mess he can handle, glancing away from Fenris' face to frown over his shoulder as he thinks back to incidents.]
Hmm... there was the memorable battle in which I nearly lost the use of my hand. I was careless. Here.
[He holds it up, and the thin scar between thumb and forefinger is barely visible unless one knows to look, as Lorenz has never shied away from magical healing, but it's there. Specifically there for Fenris to look at while Lorenz considers other moments; the unbelievable, over-the-top end to the war surely makes a better story than the things he remembers with startling clarity, but it's for that reason that he says instead,]
Besides that, I had friends in the Empire. [Which he'd sort of mentioned way back when, but the people running around Lunatia aren't people he liked so that's different--] I remember our brief reunions more vividly than I'd prefer.
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[Wry, but there's a point there, as the nobility does still exist, and Lorenz knows firsthand how selfish and power-hungry most of them are. The Alliance has its own mess of problems to still be resolved, in whatever will become of the continent after the war...
But yes, theoretically. Politics are a mess as always but they're a mess he can handle, glancing away from Fenris' face to frown over his shoulder as he thinks back to incidents.]
Hmm... there was the memorable battle in which I nearly lost the use of my hand. I was careless. Here.
[He holds it up, and the thin scar between thumb and forefinger is barely visible unless one knows to look, as Lorenz has never shied away from magical healing, but it's there. Specifically there for Fenris to look at while Lorenz considers other moments; the unbelievable, over-the-top end to the war surely makes a better story than the things he remembers with startling clarity, but it's for that reason that he says instead,]
Besides that, I had friends in the Empire. [Which he'd sort of mentioned way back when, but the people running around Lunatia aren't people he liked so that's different--] I remember our brief reunions more vividly than I'd prefer.