Dimitri's expression probably tells all it needs to, quite frankly, and yet he still pauses for a moment to more properly get the words together. It should be easy, considering Yuri is not the first person from Fodlan to arrive here.

Strangely, it is somehow not any easier.

"This place has a very peculiar property," he finally manages, which seems like a fair enough starting point. "Even for those who may have known one another in their homeland... There is no guarantee that they are from the same time together, whether that means one is from the start of a war or in the aftermath, or... If it is changed entirely with key choices having been changed. But you are certain that it was I that was traveling with you to Fort Merceus? Along with Professor Byleth?"