[The start of the question has already left her mouth before she thinks of a possible reason why the Bond could have broken other than Edelgard leaving in one way or another.]
[She could find a reason. A couple of them come to mind as soon as she hesitates. But she knows those possibilities and any others would be incredibly remote.]
[She has to face the truth: Edelgard is gone and Leslie will never see her again. Though she knew it would happen one day, the news still shocks her, her face going white and her eyes growing a little unfocused as she stares at nothing.]
[Her eyes soon refocus. She’s still very pale and her expression is still slack, her shock still clearly having not quite passed yet into actually processing the information. But there’s another side to that information Hubert gave her.]
...Are you going to be okay? Your magic, or, um. Emotionally?
[Hubert will see Edelgard again one day, but right now, he just lost a Bond. Though it’s more from hearing the theory than any personal experience, Leslie knows that the loss of a Bond is hard, and harder still when the two are as close as Hubert and Edelgard were — are.]
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[The start of the question has already left her mouth before she thinks of a possible reason why the Bond could have broken other than Edelgard leaving in one way or another.]
[She could find a reason. A couple of them come to mind as soon as she hesitates. But she knows those possibilities and any others would be incredibly remote.]
[She has to face the truth: Edelgard is gone and Leslie will never see her again. Though she knew it would happen one day, the news still shocks her, her face going white and her eyes growing a little unfocused as she stares at nothing.]
[Her eyes soon refocus. She’s still very pale and her expression is still slack, her shock still clearly having not quite passed yet into actually processing the information. But there’s another side to that information Hubert gave her.]
...Are you going to be okay? Your magic, or, um. Emotionally?
[Hubert will see Edelgard again one day, but right now, he just lost a Bond. Though it’s more from hearing the theory than any personal experience, Leslie knows that the loss of a Bond is hard, and harder still when the two are as close as Hubert and Edelgard were — are.]