Dedue closes his eyes and breathes a shaky sigh of relief. “I needed to know that,” he mumbles after a moment.

“I will not trouble you with more details.” He looks at Claude. “You should know that Dimitri” - he realizes too late that Claude will notice his use of the name instead of ‘Your Highness’ but it’s already out of his mouth - “knows there is a war in Fodlan. No more and no less. We had agreed that learning too much of the future would not be good for him. Now I fear that may be true for me as well.”