[Given Leslie’s upbringing, it’s amazing that she isn’t more cynical.
She thinks this over as she does her best to help with setting up the netting. It’s something that would have been probably impossible, back when Edelgard first met her, but the last half year has been very good for building up her strength to more standard child levels. (Well, standard if the average is not taken of only when members of the Officers Academy were her age.)
Height remains an issue, though, being even shorter than Edelgard.]
It’s good for us, but I still feel bad for her suitor. Not that it would change even if we weren’t doing this.
[Edelgard was confident in her ward's abilities to handle this, certainly. Or she wouldn't have asked. She watches though, just to be sure she's not struggling, but this isn't too difficult. The weights aren't heavy.]
Yes, I suppose I do as well, but I know very little of them other than they were apparently quite wealthy.
[Offering extravagant gifts and the like for just courting? That's quite a bit. She...had mostly gotten tea and teddy bears.]
[It’s not too difficult, but when she tries to do too much at once, it becomes too awkward for her to work with and she has to accept that she will have to make a couple of trips for things she was trying to do in one go.]
Is it only wealthy people who give courting gifts? Or is it just how many there are?
[Leslie is quick to scurry to the lever, though she pulls on the lever in a more controlled manner. Not that she’s strong enough even now to likely break anything by yanking the lever down.
At the same time, she continues to absorb this information on how courtship works, and yet another question occurs to her.]
Have you ever been courted, Lady Edelgard? There would have been less time for such things with a war going on, but you are the sort of person I would think people would wish to be engaged to.
[Her ideas of what makes a person an attractive fiancée are just a mishmash of her limited understanding, but, on top of Leslie’s high regard for Edelgard, she is an emperor with a strong work ethic and good manners, so she fits both the aristocratic more mercenary use of courtship and Leslie’s vague understanding that people who get married form a family.]
[Edelgard freezes up at the question, a little surprised at it. But she doesn't for very long. It's embarrassing to be asked so directly, but she has an answer.]
...Yes, actually. Byleth has made her intentions to court me clear. And I've reciprocated so, I would say that yes, we are courting.
[Leslie is so unaware of the non-friendship parts of Edelgard and Byleth’s relationship that it takes her a moment to process this new information. When she does, though, she looks delighted.]
Oh, how wonderful! After everything both of you have done, it’s wonderful to know that you will get to experience a woman’s greatest happiness when it is all done.
[Some of the toxic messages Leslie got from her upbringing were less obvious to her. At least Edelgard accidentally dodged awkward questions based on Leslie’s other observed case of courting where the man courted the woman by wording it as Byleth courting her. who is the feudal lord and who is the handmaiden]
[It's probably for the best that this comes from Edelgard, and gently. And it pleases her greatly to see Leslie's face light up like that.]
I think that I am quite fortunate, yes. I have a wonderful partner, and I have my dear friend Hubert, and I have the opportunity to get to know a little treasure like you. After everything, it's nice to have some semblance of a normal life.
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She thinks this over as she does her best to help with setting up the netting. It’s something that would have been probably impossible, back when Edelgard first met her, but the last half year has been very good for building up her strength to more standard child levels. (Well, standard if the average is not taken of only when members of the Officers Academy were her age.)
Height remains an issue, though, being even shorter than Edelgard.]
It’s good for us, but I still feel bad for her suitor. Not that it would change even if we weren’t doing this.
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Yes, I suppose I do as well, but I know very little of them other than they were apparently quite wealthy.
[Offering extravagant gifts and the like for just courting? That's quite a bit. She...had mostly gotten tea and teddy bears.]
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Is it only wealthy people who give courting gifts? Or is it just how many there are?
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[Less to give, less to share...you know.
Edelgard waits for Leslie patiently and when it's all moved over, she flings the netting into the water.]
Dear, would you please pull the lever over there? It'll make this more taut.
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[Leslie is quick to scurry to the lever, though she pulls on the lever in a more controlled manner. Not that she’s strong enough even now to likely break anything by yanking the lever down.
At the same time, she continues to absorb this information on how courtship works, and yet another question occurs to her.]
Have you ever been courted, Lady Edelgard? There would have been less time for such things with a war going on, but you are the sort of person I would think people would wish to be engaged to.
[Her ideas of what makes a person an attractive fiancée are just a mishmash of her limited understanding, but, on top of Leslie’s high regard for Edelgard, she is an emperor with a strong work ethic and good manners, so she fits both the aristocratic more mercenary use of courtship and Leslie’s vague understanding that people who get married form a family.]
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[Edelgard freezes up at the question, a little surprised at it. But she doesn't for very long. It's embarrassing to be asked so directly, but she has an answer.]
...Yes, actually. Byleth has made her intentions to court me clear. And I've reciprocated so, I would say that yes, we are courting.
[Or as near enough as to be indistinguishable.]
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Oh, how wonderful! After everything both of you have done, it’s wonderful to know that you will get to experience a woman’s greatest happiness when it is all done.
[Some of the toxic messages Leslie got from her upbringing were less obvious to her. At least Edelgard accidentally dodged awkward questions based on Leslie’s other observed case of courting where the man courted the woman by wording it as Byleth courting her.
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I think that I am quite fortunate, yes. I have a wonderful partner, and I have my dear friend Hubert, and I have the opportunity to get to know a little treasure like you. After everything, it's nice to have some semblance of a normal life.