[ It's a familiar name, and it takes her a moment to place it. (No accompanying face, but she remembers an important network transmission a while back.) ]
The man who slayed Michel.
[ ...It makes all too much sense, now. Rin had been imprisoned in the castle with her, separated from her Servant. A Servant's task is to keep his or her Master safe... (Granted there's more to that in the assassination of an important political figure, but the reasons are as seemingly obvious as they are subtle.)
At any rate, if the pair is reunited now, Aqua assumes the aforementioned crawling and begging has been accomplished in some manner.
So, then... ] ...And have you forgiven him?
[ A contract and a pardon are hardly the same; Aqua herself isn't sure how she'd face such a situation, though, she can't imagine the same circumstances in the first place. (It isn't just what Rin's told her just now, but whatever intrinsic bond she acquired along with her Command Seals.)
She may not always (or even often) see eye-to-eye with Lancer, but she trusts him implicitly. ]
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[ It's a familiar name, and it takes her a moment to place it. (No accompanying face, but she remembers an important network transmission a while back.) ]
The man who slayed Michel.
[ ...It makes all too much sense, now. Rin had been imprisoned in the castle with her, separated from her Servant. A Servant's task is to keep his or her Master safe... (Granted there's more to that in the assassination of an important political figure, but the reasons are as seemingly obvious as they are subtle.)
At any rate, if the pair is reunited now, Aqua assumes the aforementioned crawling and begging has been accomplished in some manner.
So, then... ] ...And have you forgiven him?
[ A contract and a pardon are hardly the same; Aqua herself isn't sure how she'd face such a situation, though, she can't imagine the same circumstances in the first place. (It isn't just what Rin's told her just now, but whatever intrinsic bond she acquired along with her Command Seals.)
She may not always (or even often) see eye-to-eye with Lancer, but she trusts him implicitly. ]