The blank look Dimitri gives Hawkeye lasts several moments too long. " ... Fhirdiad doesn't have a ... 'deli'." He makes a point of pronouncing the name clearly. "I do. I miss it terribly. I was never meant to leave it this long. It should never have been more than a year ... "

In Fódlan, in all Dimitri's life, he would never have left Fhirdiad for longer than his year at the Officer's Academy. Now it's been three, and home has never felt farther away.