[You vastly overestimate my skill at handling Dimitri's emotions he almost says but doesn't. Sylvain gnaws at the inside of his cheek as he processes what he's reading, and what he's being told over video.]

So you're saying the last time I was here with you all, the last thing I remembered was right at the beginning of the war?

[He considers saying something snarky about Claude telling him he gave a colder reception that time, but once he thinks on it, remembering where his mind was back then, he decides against it.]

I'm sorry if I was suspicious or accusatory back then. Sounds like it didn't get in the way of us getting along, eventually, or if it did you're doing a wonderful job of hiding your grudge. I suppose that's what I would suspect from a guy as politically savvy as you, but that isn't the point.

I am... assuming Gremlin the rat is not a normal rat. For one thing I haven't seen a normal blessed animal since I got here.