[ Gareth gave Ritsuka her full attention, which wasn't a great ask of her even at other times. In a way, she needed to hear this. Most of what she'd gotten from others, even other Chaldea servants beside her brother, was some uncertainty. Not strictly because they had reason to distrust Kadoc (though Gawain seemed to insist he did), but mostly she just... needed some affirmation that it was not what Gawain feared, that she was simply offering him her faith on granted, that her tendency to reach across the darkness for those she saw as lost...
That he'd be another Lancelot.
It wasn't Kadoc she doubted, really, but instead just... herself. That she was being irrational, just as she had that night she'd almost kissed him, still weak in so many ways and groping blindly in the dark for any strength she could find, finding it in him. It was... a lot, and...
Without knowing any of that, but perhaps knowing in her way that Ritsuka's boundless empathy always seemed to, her Master had just... affirmed her.
Gareth smiled, and her eyes seemed to well up, just slightly, and gave a firm nod. ]
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That he'd be another Lancelot.
It wasn't Kadoc she doubted, really, but instead just... herself. That she was being irrational, just as she had that night she'd almost kissed him, still weak in so many ways and groping blindly in the dark for any strength she could find, finding it in him. It was... a lot, and...
Without knowing any of that, but perhaps knowing in her way that Ritsuka's boundless empathy always seemed to, her Master had just... affirmed her.
Gareth smiled, and her eyes seemed to well up, just slightly, and gave a firm nod. ]
I... I agree, Master. I really, truly do...