I've met a great many nobles in my time. It's the first time I'd encountered anything quite like that. The late Lord Lonato was a good man, a good lord by all accounts, despite...how things ended.

[ Far better than the Adrestian nobility, cloistered off in Enbarr so far departed from the realities of their own lands and the people who lived there. There are a fair few genuinely goodhearted and caring nobles in Faerghus, though Yuri's erstwhile adopted father was not among them.

Dimitri, however, is the first with both the power and motivation to pursue better conditions for of his people. ]

But someone wanting to enact that kind of change, not just an idle thought, but genuine intent? Yeah, that was a surprise. Not as much as choosing to go about it the hard way, simply because it's the right thing to do.

[ And it's the honorable intention that resonated with him, that transformed Dimitri from a well-intentioned fool to a leader worth supporting in Yuri's eyes. ]

That's more unique than you'd want to believe.

[ King Dimitri had unknowingly given Yuri hope that a dream he'd begun to see as beyond his reach could indeed be realized, that it could be done honorably, and he can't say what that truly means to him. ]