[The video blips on. Pull back. Someone is lounging upside down over the back of a bench in the Wonderland District. She's wearing a thin, blue nightgown that normally goes just past mid-thigh, so there's a little more leg showing than normal. White, luxurious hair spills over the side of the bench and blue, minx eyes look sleepily into the camera
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[Something about this seems familiar.]
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[Asch's opinion still holds. Ever since the escape from Baticul, she'd probably been frightened. And why not? Uncle had rejected her. And then with Largo... It wasn't about her people, she had to know that everyone in Kimlasca loved her, but there was still--...]
[Scowling, Asch cuts the thought off before it can get any more headway.]
It's not. I suppose you have a better suggestion.
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[she looks at him the same way an adult would look at a guilty child, brow arched, and a lightly unamused expression to her features.]
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You think I'm making this up? Fine. But you didn't see what happened back then.
['It's not like you to be scared.' And it wasn't. But she had admitted '[...] Some things frighten even me...' Not even all the citizens in Kimlasca-Lanvaldear could have protected her from those feelings of uncertainty. He doesn't think they've gone away entirely either.]
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[And yet something seems off. Something to do with his left hand. Asch raises it to his face, slowly unballing his palm and discovers that there is, in fact, an unfamiliar ring. Right there. He doesn't know where it came from, but there are only two possible explanations: either the city's feeling generous or someone wished it there.]
[Scowling, Asch examines it more closely. Why is it engraved with an "L"?]
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