Ah. The situation was made to sound so grave that I'd thought a latent infection, so to speak, went undetected for longer.

[ poison licking its way through the mind, laying foundations slowly but surely...

until eventually, the person affected doesn't know which way is up without being told. what it seems to robin is that this heliobus played its hand far too soon. ]

How boldly arrogant of this Apyra, then, to think it could so thoroughly subvert someone within a few short hours. If anyone had any strength of will or character to speak of, of course they'd put up more resistance than that. And then it claims to know him, inside and out ... Are they all like that?

[ they continue to dodge the subject of chrom's death, but robin is well aware of the juxtaposition of his words against what happened then. ]