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    “It looks as though… your path ends here.”

     

     
    She thought she imagined the tremble in her former student’s voice as it echoed across the grand and lonely throne room.

     

    “I knew that when we met again that one of us would breathe our last. Some part of me had always thought that your path would lie across my grave. Until now… I could not truly accept that it would be mine that lies across yours.”

     

    Byleth wanted to lower her head, yet she couldn’t look away. She couldn’t look away from the sadness that broke through that mask of determination.

     

    “If you must fall, then let it be by my hand. I do not think I could bear that weight if it had been any other way.” She moved closer, the knelling of her sabatons punctuating every step.

     

    “My teacher. I wanted… to walk with you.”

     

    Edelgard’s strained whisper was drowned in the hum of Aymr bearing down upon Byleth’s head, scattering her last thoughts into oblivion.

     

    Yet fate was equally cruel and kind.
    She left the world at the hands of an enemy clad in her own regret.
    And awoke in the arms of her loving wife

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