Hıldα! Hıldα!

Suuuper motivated, mmhm!

She couldn't stop if she wanted to... no, like, literally. Really curious.

Hilda's hard at work today...

Nearly every tarnished weapon was polished. Stables were changed out. She volunteered to help cook. Training. New dummies after she split them into thousands of pieces.

...
This IS Hilda, right—?

Ooh, it hurts so bad...
She wants to complain but her muscles are just kind of... giving up. Jaw included.

Or maybe that's her brain frying, making it harder to move. She is eating a LOT of bolts.

...Eh, if she can't move, she can't leave. The meatheads probably don't care.

Totally.
...
Why does this feel like a threat—?

She's taken thunder magic before, that's nothin'! Still hurt a lot though. . .

Either zap her again, or be more creative about magic. She's clearly losing.

Pff. So she's alone with some bandits? Seems kinda unfair for them, Hilda's sort of freaky strong...

May need to pool some brains together to figure out how to make this lady lose. Because she's all muscle too, just like them—.

Of course she tried fighting back! And she was WINNING... until some stupid bandit with magic messed her up bad.

Now she doesn't even get her own face while these guys get their way, oh noooo~.

She's so tiiiired...

Gonna use the reader's bed. Her's is too far. Thankies~!

Now just, hold on...

There's definitely a bunch of bandits in her face, but.
She can *definitely* say for sure she isn't the noble that got kidnapped!

Hell, she was on her way TO free Annette...

Somethin' screwy is going on.

Is that how it works? Why not just throw yourself in with someone else? I would think somebody would get bored of that, if they saw the same stuff over and over.

( She definitely didn't seem to lose the plot, but... Hilda has. Immensely. She just kind of wants to mess around--. )

( She IS making her schemes rather apparent. But maybe that's because she's joking - hopefully. )

You show off whatever you'd like! I *promise,* I have the right brain space for more memories.

Oh, I'm not saying we interfere. Just that I could totally go for a whole Goddess makeover when I hit this point in life...

( Now she's convincing herself that swiping Sothis is a good idea. It wouldn't be interfering... just, dramatically altering history from then on. )

+ time. You're not like, gonna make the same happen to me, are you-?

( ...It'd certainly be a deviation in history. But they'd probably need to go back to Hilda's Academy years for such bad ideas. )

This... it definitely feels like stuff I shouldn't be seeing. Are we sure it's fine—?

( She was literally experiencing history she couldn't possibly have been alive for. Something about that just screamed dangerous to Hilda. )

So... what I'm getting is you've just BEEN with Byleth this whole +

Uh- the beginning, I guess? But you're totally making it sound less like a story, more like an experience.

( They are, in some way, in the goddess' mind.
...Hilda could probably experience it through that lens, with enough magical meddling. Depends how she wants this tea party to go. )

You and you only, huh? Well, not trying to burst your bubble, Sothis, but *I'm* here. Kinda goes against what you're saying.

( ...Knowing she'd be asked to, the sassier girl is taking a seat. Given what just happened in front of her, you'd think she would ease up, but... no, not really. )

//I am ALL here for this dw

( Yeah this is all way too confusing for her... It's one thing to talk to the goddess, another to be all 'in between time' or whatever. )

Maybe it's because I'm way more normal than Byleth, but I am NOT grasping... half of this stuff.

( No, that's just- because Sothis talked to them much more. )

+ different pieces together. Sothis gave her answer as to where, but that still didn't make sense, to her. )

This still isn't a room, clearly, so... WHERE are we? I don't care about details, I just need straight answers.

( Once it's settled they're safe? Sure, then they can girltalk. )

( There's a rather... loud choke. That was NOT something she expected somebody to ever claim. )

That's... yeah that's a really bold claim. I don't think there's anybody stupid enough to wave that name around like a flag, so I guess you really ARE the goddess, huh.

( But now she's trying to put +

So you used... warp magic? I mean, okay, but at least ASK first!

( Ugh, her voice was carrying so much... not to mention this place didn't even look like it was lit. ALL that there was was some floor, and that throne.

...Not warp magic. But playing stupid seems better right now. )

Only way I'm gonna understand your... weird way of putting this junk is putting me in your headspace. And no offense? I don't wanna be a creep.

( ...She doesn't know just how literal that could be, in some contexts. End of it all, Hilda's being dramatic, but implying Sothis needs to be drastic. )

...Yeah, sorry, that's going completely over my head. You *really* just sound like a creep, sorry.

And it's real convenient that you sound like this AND have never been mentioned. Real funny, that.

( She may mean well, but her wording and... secretive behavior is making Hilda more and more wary. )

Okay, you know HOW weird it is to say that stuff and then follow it with 'non-romantic,' right? Like...

( She sounds like some kind of stalker... Definitely not getting answers now. )

Try and like. Be a little more normal?

...Why do you need Byleth so bad, huh?

( Of course she's going to ask... It's suspicious at best. )

What kind of trade is that?!

I don't even have the. . . right stuff to return that favor, anyway!

Uh--.

Sorry, but I *definitely* don't remember that happening?

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