Dimitri's quick to lean up, kissing Dedue's cheeks before the tears can fall. "I love you," he says, still in Duscur. "God of love, I've wanted so long to say you -- tell you in the right words. I love you so much. I love you," he repeats in Emeran, "je t'aime," in French, and in his own Faerghan, "I love you -- "

The ease of it startles a laugh out of him. It's a challenge, to the Master of the House and everyone else who seeded that fear in Dimitri's soul; this place is his, and whatever would threaten them will suffer for it. He kisses Dedue again (he couldn't stop himself if he wanted to). "I love you!"