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- C-support
- Soldier: Thank you so much, miss. I’d be a dead man if not for you.
- Elise: [sweat, smile] No problem!
- [Soldier leaves; Elise is alone]
- Elise: [sweat, eyes closed] …phew…
- Rhajat: Working yourself to death again, Mother?
- Elise: [surprised] Ack!
- Elise: [smile, eyes closed] You scared me, Rhajat!
- Rhajat: [smirk] Obviously. You’re bone-white.
- Rhajat: [frown] Or is that just the amount of energy you’ve wasted on this sorry lot?
- Elise: [pout] Rhajat! Don’t say things like that!
- Elise: Helping someone who’s hurt is never, ever a waste!
- Rhajat: [frown] They’re soldiers. It’s their job to get hurt.
- Rhajat: [smirk] And since they’re still alive, I’m betting whoever dealt those wounds isn’t.
- Elise: [surprised] Rhajat…
- Nohrian villager: Um, excuse me, miss? Are you the healer we’ve heard about?
- Elise: [smile, closed eyes] Sure am! What’s the problem?
- Rhajat: [frown] …
- Villager: It’s my sister! She’s been having labour pains all morning, but-
- Rhajat: Come on, Mother. We’re leaving.
- Elise: [frown] No! We can’t just-
- Rhajat: Not negotiable. Come on!
- Elise: [angry] Rhajat! Let go! RHAJAT!
- Villager: [frown] …
- [scene transition]
- Elise: What are you doing?! Her sister-
- Rhajat: [frown] Doesn’t exist. There was no blood on her anywhere!
- Elise: [surprised] Th-that’s true, but…
- Rhajat: She was trying to trap you alone, Mother.
- Rhajat: Don’t be so naïve.
- Elise: [eyes closed, upset, sweat] Rh-Rhajat…
- Rhajat: [frown] Come on, Mother. Let’s just get you home before you collapse.
- B-support
- Elise: [smile, closed eyes] Just make sure you rest it a lot, okay? Keep it elevated and it’ll heal in no time!
- Villager: Thank you so much, miss. Are you sure you won’t accept payment?
- Rhajat: [smirk] Actua-
- Elise: [smile] Positive.
- Villager: Gods bless you, young ladies.
- Elise: Bye!
- Elise: [smile] See, Rhajat? Just a harmless old man!
- Rhajat: [frown] You can’t blame me for being cautious, since you’re so very determined not to be.
- Rhajat: I should just tell Aunt/Uncle Avatar and be done with it. She’d/he’d talk some sense into you.
- Elise: [smile, closed eyes] But you won’t~ ♫ Because you love me! ♫
- Rhajat: [blush, frown] Hrmf.
- Soldier: Miss, thank the gods I found you!
- Elise: [surprised] Oh hey, it’s you again!
- Rhajat: [frown] …
- Soldier: We got into another scrap – please, won’t you help with my arm?
- Elise: [frown] Ow, that must hurt! Alright, I’ll need you to take off that side of your shirt, and-
- Rhajat: [frown] Wait.
- Rhajat: That injury. How’d you get it?
- Soldier: Uh- fighting bandits!
- Rhajat: Bandits, hmm?
- Rhajat: [smirk] I don’t think so.
- Soldier: Lady, I was actually talking to Miss-
- Rhajat: Sakura. Her name’s Sakura.
- Elise: [surprised] …
- Soldier: [surprised] ‘Sakura’? That sounds, uh-
- Rhajat: Hoshidan? Did you think us Nohrians?
- Soldier: …
- Soldier: Look, I think I’d better go.
- Rhajat: [smirk] What, Hoshidan healing not good enough for you?
- Soldier: Good day, Miss Sakura.
- [Soldier leaves]
- Elise: [angry] What was that?!
- Rhajat: [frown] Not all Nohrian soldiers are as good as you seem to think they are, Mother.
- Elise: [frown] Good isn’t the issue, Rhajat.
- Elise: He was hurt. I could’ve helped him. That’s all that matters.
- Rhajat: Even if he looked at you like you were dirt the minute he thought you were Hoshidan?
- Elise: [sad] Even if he’d been a Hoshidan who hated Nohrians.
- Rhajat: [angry] Don’t you get it?! That wound on his arm wasn’t from some meat-headed bandit! It was Diviner’s magic!
- Rhajat: We could see him on the battlefield tomorrow, and he’d cut you or Hayato down without a second thought.
- Rhajat: You’d still heal him?
- Elise: [frown] Yes.
- Rhajat: [smirk] He’s a soldier who sustained an injury he couldn’t report to his own company’s healers about. How did he even get that, I wonder?
- Rhajat: Ransacking a village? Ambushing some traders? Maybe falling on a solitary healer-
- Elise: [angry] STOP IT!
- Elise: What do you want me to say – that I think he should die?!
- Elise: I don’t! I don’t think anyone should die!
- Rhajat: [surprised] Mother, I-
- Elise: [upset] I’m just… I’m trying to do what I think is right.
- Elise: And I can’t just leave someone who’s hurt, no matter who they are or what they’ve done. I decided that a long time ago.
- Rhajat: What do you mean?
- Elise: [eyes closed] Xander, Leo, Camilla – I love them so much, but they’ve done terrible things.
- Elise: And if it wasn’t for Avatar leaving and everything that’s happened, I’d be the same.
- Elise: [sad] So I decided I’ll help anyone who lets me. No matter who they are.
- Elise: If I want people to trust that me and my family have reasons for what we’ve done, I have to do the same.
- Rhajat: [surprised] I- I’m sorry, I didn’t even think about…
- Elise: [smile] Don’t worry. Dwelling on that stuff kinda hurts, so I try not to.
- Elise: Let’s go home for today, okay?
- Rhajat: [sad] Of course.
- Rhajat: (Mother… I’ll help ease your burden, somehow…)
- A-support
- Hoshidan Villager: Please, miss! There must be something you can do!
- Elise: [sad] I’m sorry! Healing magic doesn’t work on illnesses like that…
- Rhajat: [frown] Is something wrong?
- Villager: I don’t understand! Please, why can’t you help us?!
- Elise: [sad] Healing magic only works on recent injuries-
- Rhajat: What are her symptoms?
- Villager: She can’t keep any food down, and she’s been coughing up blood! She’s too weak to stand!
- Rhajat: [frown] …Brew these together in a tea. Get her to drink a cup every dawn and dusk. She should be able to start eating again in a few days.
- Villager: T-truly?
- Rhajat: Don’t let the roots spoil. They don’t grow around here, so getting more will be difficult.
- Rhajat: She can stop drinking it once she’s kept solids down for three days. Preserve the rest in case anyone else in your village falls ill.
- Villager: Thank you so much!
- Rhajat: [frown] Thank her, not me.
- Villager: W-well, then, thank you both! You’ve saved my little sister’s life!
- [Villager leaves]
- Elise: [surprised] Rhajat… you really don’t mind giving away your reagents?
- Rhajat: [smirk] I knew you’d obsess over it otherwise. Don’t get the wrong idea, Mother, I’m not turning over a new leaf any time soon.
- Elise: [smile] Whatever you s- oh…
- Elise: [frown, sweat] (It’s that soldier from before…)
- Rhajat: [frown, sweat] (It looks like he’s brought some friends. This could be bad.)
- Elise: (Go and get Avatar and Azura, I’ll stall them!)
- Rhajat: (I’m not leaving you here-)
- Soldier: …Excuse me?
- Elise: [sweat] Er… hello. Did you get hurt again?
- Soldier: No, your highness. I’m better than ever, thanks to you.
- Soldier: Lady Elise… you’ve been announced a traitor to the Crown. The King wants your head on a pike.
- Elise: [sweat, frown] …
- Soldier: Is it true you’re trying to stop the war?
- Elise: [determined] It is. Not just me – Hoshidan royalty, too.
- Soldier: So the rumours are true…
- Rhajat: [frown] Hands where I can see them.
- Wyvern Rider: We mean no harm!
- Elise: [surprised] What?
- Hero: Milady, you still have supporters in the Nohrian army. Always.
- Elise: [surprised] R-really? I…
- Elise: [smile, closed eyes] We’re doing our best!
- Wyvern Rider: We’re all praying for the day you and your family bring peace to us at last.
- Elise: [smile] I’m… I’m so glad!
- [scene transition]
- Elise: [smile, closed eyes] Did you hear all the nice stuff they were saying, Rhajat?
- Rhajat: [smirk] Mmm-hmm. Seems like they meant it, too.
- Rhajat: I slipped a bit of truth-telling powder into their leader’s drink.
- Elise: [pout] Rhajat! Again?
- Rhajat: [smirk] Better safe than sorry.
- Rhajat: [smile, blush] I have to admit, Mother… you’re inspiring.
- Rhajat: Your boundless optimism actually got through to them.
- Rhajat: ...And me.
- Elise: [smile] Aww, Rhajat… c’mon, family hug time! Bring it in!
- Rhajat: [smile, closed eyes] …Just this once.
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