[Claude smiles slightly at Dimitri's asssessment -- it is like a fairy tale, isn't it? One he admires them both for a great deal.]

Yeah, he was. Then he took the throne and became King of Almyra, until he stepped down just recently. Now all of this-- [He spreads his arms, indicating the wide open steppe,] --is in the care of yours truly. I just wish I could've spent longer there before getting dragged into this mess, you know?

[He's homesick, in other words. Fódlan became a second home, but he still loves Almyra too, for all the flaws that first drove him away from it.]