[The answer came too quickly, so the epithet is tacked on to, in some ways, draw back a bit. It's a habit - a bad one - for him to be somewhat afraid to put himself, his genuine wants, out there.
So, of course Dimitri is allowed to be selfish. He's their king, why would he not be? He could ask the world of them, and they'd bring him the universe.
...But isn't that why he should be less afraid? It's Dimitri. The little boy that ran after him in the snow, who cried when he tripped and scraped his knee. The handsome young noble who looked to him for guidance at the Monastery, despite his reputation. The beast, swallowed up in the depths of grief and suffering that they all still stood by until he found a way to claw himself out and return to them.
His question had been genuine, so he shouldn't be flippant.
So he sighs, and starts again.]
Of course. I mean it, Dimitri. Ask anything of me, and it will be yours, and I'm certain we all feel the same.
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[The answer came too quickly, so the epithet is tacked on to, in some ways, draw back a bit. It's a habit - a bad one - for him to be somewhat afraid to put himself, his genuine wants, out there.
So, of course Dimitri is allowed to be selfish. He's their king, why would he not be? He could ask the world of them, and they'd bring him the universe.
...But isn't that why he should be less afraid? It's Dimitri. The little boy that ran after him in the snow, who cried when he tripped and scraped his knee. The handsome young noble who looked to him for guidance at the Monastery, despite his reputation. The beast, swallowed up in the depths of grief and suffering that they all still stood by until he found a way to claw himself out and return to them.
His question had been genuine, so he shouldn't be flippant.
So he sighs, and starts again.]
Of course. I mean it, Dimitri. Ask anything of me, and it will be yours, and I'm certain we all feel the same.