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[blaiddydblood]

“I DISPOSED OF DOUBT LONG AGO.”

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[donoteattheweeds]

"You have changed," Dedue says, and this is an obvious thing. Dimitri as he is now is not the same man whom he freed from the prisons, but Dedue is also not the same man that rescued him. Such is the nature of time and life. "You have suffered greatly in my absence."

Dedue steps closer, and his voice softens.

"What has not changed is my--" Devotion, ardor, love, in every way that a man can love. Were someone to cut him open, they would find Dimitri's name engraved in the muscle of his heart, immutable. "--dedication to you and to your goals. If I am to aid you in your ambitions, is there a better place for me to be than at your side, as your sword and shield?"

Close to him again, despite the... complications that his biology might impose. But if he is to help His Highness, if he is to pull him from the darkness that he has sunk into over these past few years, he must again be the stalwart and unwavering support that Dimitri had once relied upon. He would just also have to rely upon his own unyielding willpower to maintain control of himself. To not allow himself to be affected by base desires, and ones that would be above his station even were they not at war.