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[freckledarcher]

"Hello? I think I got it now. Hello! This is Ashe please leave a message and I'll get back with you as soon as I can!"

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[freckledarcher]

[Ashe sat back while he processed all the information. He certainly knew more noble people than he imagined. He didn't imagine Claude would tell him something this important even if it filled in the blanks for the rumors back at school then again during the war. Dimitri told them that Claude helped so he didn't think much of it. Well, it helped him understand how it was possible for Claude to help them when they needed it. He didn't know much about Almyra, only things that he's read in books back in the library or heard from word of mouth, this information wasn't in any book that's for sure.

Ashe turned back to Claude while he messed with the end of his hoodie.]

It does seem like a lot of forces stopping you at the moment. I'm sure in time life will let you put your plans into action.

[Ashe didn't mean to come off as awkward, but he still froze around nobility.]

Um, should I call you a different name now?

[vrdantwind]

[Claude chuckles.] I mean, technically, you could. My real name's Khalid. Claude's just a name I adopted based on a Riegan ancestor of mine. [He rests his elbow on the table, and his chin on his hand.] And it's not like I'm not proud of my Almyran identity, or my Almyran name, no matter what people might think of them. But at the same time...all the best memories I've made in my life have been made while I was Claude. I don't mind staying Claude with the people who've only known me as that.

I don't need you to do anything differently, Ashe. I just wanted you to know the same things I've shared with the others, because you deserve to know as much as any of them. Taking the throne back home...it meant I was past the point of needing to keep these secrets anymore. I wasn't that thrilled when I wound up here and got dumped back into them. I want to be able to be who I really am with you guys, finally. And to do it with all of you, not just some of you.