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He takes the lead down the corridor  his shoes are tucked under his arm for easy carrying and he’s well aware of how unprepared he is compared to the shorter member of their team. Still he takes lead because it doesn’t feel quite right to make Neo go first when he’s been designated as team leader. Not far down the corridor they come upon a single door it has no sign or markings to give any indication of what’s behind it, but he doesn’t think that whatever it is couldn’t be any good if the last ‘test’ was anything to go by. 

Still he doesn’t open the door just yet and instead turns his head to his teammates to offer a brief smile, “Here goes nothing I guess?”

He opens the door and steps through, as he puts his foot down it falls right through with no ground to catch himself on. He stumbles and looses his grip on the doorknob and tumbles right into the pit, the only thing cushioning his fall was, large colored balls that filled the entire pit.

“Wha--” He’s sunk a bit into the pit, his hand takes up one of the man colored spheres and examines it, “what are these--? They’re harmless?” he supposes so since they’re causing no harm to him as they are, so he drops the ball and gives his team a confused look.

“I think we’re okay?”

What even is this??? What’s going on??

“Not even Xander could get me to wear shoes,” he mutters to himself, “I’m not putting them on for this, whatever this is.”

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“Wouldn’t you? The situation felt so helpless waiting for that monster to come and kill them after having seen the mutilated corpses of the their friends. Its horrifying to picture myself in that kind of situation. How do you watch these kinds of things for fun?” 

Corrin has never seen a ‘movie’ before, it was something that had never existed where he was from so it was a luxury that he’d never had. He scarcely thinks that it matters, however, regardless of not having these ‘movies’ back home he doubts they’d have the time to indulge in entertainment with a war raging on their doorsteps. Lord Garon may have thought different, but Corrin couldn’t imagine stepping off the field without the war won to bury the thoughts of battle beneath mindless entertainment. Still taking the time to watch the movie with Nam was a welcome reprieve from the school like they’d be tossed into, he was hardly suited for a classroom setting.

Corrin settles back in his seat and does smile back at Nam, “I must admit, it was a little fun underneath all of that terror and---” he pauses had he said cried?

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“My ambitions have never once led me astray, the path I walk is one that will unite kingdoms in peace, Add” Corrin responds to his statement in turn though he feels like the younger is taking a stab at his grab for peace, but its not a discussion they’ve had so he discards the thought and reaches forward with a smile. 

“Perhaps you should worry more about yourself than me.” And if he sounds a little smug, then its because he is, just a little bit, “your ambitions may be more spectacular than my own, and maybe its you who is blinded? They’ve already led you astray and you’re risking everything you’ve worked for riding on that single ambition. You’re really gonna take this risk aren’t you?”

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“I’m not crying this time.” 

Corrin’s eyes were in fact watering, but no the Prince was not actually crying, though the truth was just as embarrassing. He couldn’t keep quiet about it though, as he couldn’t even see and needed to head to the infirmary asap. He rubs at his eyes with the back of his hands, but only is rewarded with a deep sting that persists without any sign of it stopping. Its agony and he hates being blinded to the world around so with a sigh he starts to fess up.

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“Cakes?” Corrin has had cake before, Jakob used to make the best pastries in his opinion, but he had not had the chance to sample any cakes from the shops in Orilon. There had been no time for him to visit the shops and explore the new expansion available for them to explore. 

“I can’t say I have, not that I know where I would even find them” he admits with a laugh, “if its not too much trouble would you mind showing me the way? I’d rather not get lost on my first trip to Orilon.”

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Corrin had retreated in on himself lately, while he was still all smiles and good natured around everyone else he’d still disappear at a moments notice to take time to grieve by himself. He’d not even had a chance to cope with Scarlet’s death before being forced to adjusted to this new life far from his family and everything familiar to him. Yet Takumi and Leo had been here, surprises that Corrin had gladly welcomed until he had the chance to speak with the two of them and have feelings dredged up for things in the past and things he hadn’t even done. The news of Elise and Xander’s deaths shook Corrin to his core, everything hurt and on top of it all having both of them blaming him made it hard for Corrin to even stand in the same room as the two little brothers he deeply cherished and adored.

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“I’m not quite sure how you want me to take that statement” he and Blake have been sitting in silence working on their Creature studies together until she spoke up, “I’d like to think it is though, that when someone passes there’s life after death and not just nothing.” 

He puts the book he’d been reading down and finds himself sighing, death had to be something right? He’d like to think it was something good for his Mother and for Scarlet, that they may find peace from the war torn land they had left, but knowing their hearts they’d not find true peace until the land was at peace and the war was done. Mikoto, Scarlet, he hates to think about the faces that died for his sake, the people who’d lost there lives because of him, so he wants to drop this conversation as soon as she can and return to their work and maybe a lighter topic.

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“E-excuse me” Corrin can’t stop the crack, the break in his voice as he tries to calmly avoid the question. Young ladies of this world were far different than the ones he knew back home, he could hardly see Elise or Sakura posing such a question. He wouldn’t humor the thought one bit, but this wouldn’t help the pressing expectant eyes of a girl that was neither Elise, nor Sakura who looked like she’d hardly leave him alone without an answer of some kind. 

Okay throwing this down here too! 

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Moist. 

Moist.

Oh. Okay Corrin can see it, the word is a bit weird on his tongue and it just, sounds wrong. He nods in agreement, “It is a weird word, its not one you here people say very often its either things like wet or damp, never moist.” He crinkles his nose after the word leaves his mouth, it sounds weird to even hear himself say it. “I say we not bring up the topic again to avoid even thinking about it.” 

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Its not the first time Zero’s thrown the odd innuendo is his way, and Corrin’s certain it won’t be the last. He’s grown familiar with them, yet not quite used to them and he can’t stop himself from getting a little flustered under the outlaw’s gaze. “We’ve visited the Baths together before Zero,” he states as a matter of fact, this wasn’t the first time he saw him without his suit, “tell me what makes this time any different than any of those.”