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[ For all that this is a video post, Robin's hood covers most of his face, and he voice seems somewhat tinny thanks to the device. It may take a bit more fine tuning before he can use it to the extent that he would like. Still, his message should be broadcast network wide, which is all that he really wants at the moment. ]

This is your tactician speaking. I am trying to ascertain a count of all of us who ended up... [ He's pauses, searching for the right word ] transported... to this location, as well as make sure that we can get in contact with each other.

[ He turns away from the screen, as if checking his surroundings which can be vaguely seen behind him as a brightly lit black monolith-like structures, very urbanised. ]

I am in the 'district' I believe that is the proper term Crystalden. I am near the only tree I've managed to find in the area, and as such I am assuming it is the only one.

If all of you could try to find a similarly unique aspect to each of your districts and head to that location, as well as call or send a written message back to me, it would be greatly appreciated.

[ He sighs, and pushes a hand up under his hood, possibly to rub his temples. ]

I won't let this interfere with the 'situation' we must face back home, but I will need your cooperation.

Thank you.

[ The video is terminated, but the line seems to be open. ]

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[This response comes later than others, once this person has had more than enough time to hear people, whom he wasn't searching for, replying to his message. Primo's tone is clearly amused though not to the verge of be mockingly.]

Regretting already how you forgot to specify to whom this message was aimed?

[ Given the individuals he has met, Robin can't exactly call it a loss. ]

The responses were unexpected, perhaps, but not wholly unwelcome.

[ His army is built on connections and making friends, after all; a few more can't hurt. ]

It complicates some matters, but opens new avenues for possible strategies.

[ Robin is rather amused by the whole ordeal himself, now that he's mostly over the shock of having a... feminine self. (By far the most... unexpected of events). ]

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[There's evident surprise in his tone, though he doesn't react excessively to it. Something that could happen but that he doubted would happen. It makes Primo pause before he speaks again, his tone sincere.]

Glad to hear that, many others so called strategists probably would have found the... "Intruders" annoying to their attempts to re-organize their specific group.

That you sound actually willing to take those strangers into account for strategies speaks greatly for you.

...Thank you.

[ It's not quite phrased as a question, but there is still that lingering sense of confusion. He wouldn't have gotten very far if he was concerned about 'intruders'. He was rather one himself, in all fairness. ]

A good tactician makes use of the unexpected and [ a desperate one, his mind whispers ] doesn't close himself or herself to help.

[ He's rather curious, now ]

Do you happen to know a tactician?

[The lingering confusion makes Primo chuckle, amused by it.]

Hmm, maybe I do, maybe I don't. Hearing you I would dare to doubt how much of tacticians they really were. Then again, maybe they were just people who were specially bright and good at organizing but not true strategists so maybe I'm being too hard on them.

[There's only a very minimal amount of regret in his tone, as if he doesn't really care if he's being too hard on them or not.]

It's just that... I've seen way too many people try to assemble something out of a disordered mass much like the one the kidnapped people form here, and at the same time reject everyone who didn't fit certain requirements that they thought they should have. As if, unless you can do something specific, unless you own some brilliant offensive talent for war, you have no place even trying to help them.

As if civilians should just stay low and wait for the great heroes to do their thing and save everyone. Regardless of how those civilians could actually hold the key for the mystery, or bring up fresh ideas and new points of view to the conflict.

It's not a bad way to do things but... Don't you think it makes the solution more difficult to reach?

Limiting one's resources only limits oneself. One should expect the enemy to take any advantage they can get, and you must gather your own in response.

It seems both callous and wasteful to do otherwise.

Who are we to judge the worth of a man?

[ Look at him. He's just a guy with almost no memories that was found napping in a field with a name to a face. He certainly has no room to judge from. Any sane man would have dumped him right back where he was.

The fact that Chrom is the type of person to extend trust makes him eternally grateful, and eternally worried. ]

However, I cannot speak for every situation. I do not wish to criticize the rationale of those I do not know nor understand.

Truly an intelligent tactician. We're really lucky then, things are really looking better in this place despite everything having just started.

Why, I may even end expecting the people here to find a way out of here and all.

[He's sincere despite there being a tingle of amusement in his words, an edge of experience and different expectations from what his words imply.]

You're right, I guess criticizing them would do no good and it would be pointless anyway. Though sometimes I still wonder if they are still trapped there, in that world between worlds, subjected to experiments and with no hope to get out.

Let's try to not become like them if that were the case, hm? I'm sure those who have a place to return to would prefer to do is as soon as possible rather than to spend years here.

[ It's rather flattering, his opinion, though Robin isn't sure what to make of the praise. ]

I certainly strive to find one. There is much that I must do, yet.

[ The sincerity is, perhaps, the part that leaves Robin with the most unease, though he does register this man as a foe. Such knowledge never comes easy or painlessly, and war can change men very easily.

And, truth be told, 'trapped in a world between worlds' and 'subject to experiments' and 'no hope' don't sound pleasant in the slightest. ]

It seems for the best, but I question whether such a thing is possible.

[Primo laughs openly at that. There's no mockery on it but there's no mirth either, it's almost hollow of any real emotion. The kind of laugh that one pulls out as a reaction when they don't want to really react because the real reaction would be a painful one.]

Oh, it's possible. There was a way in, there has to be a way out. The question doesn't lay there, not even if we will be able to find it, but in how we will control it so everyone can leave.

[A brief pause and then in a softer voice.]

And what the price for it maybe. After all, nothing really comes free nowadays.

[ He'd mention the Risen, and all of those coming from a different past into his present, but he has no idea how that works either, and so chooses to stay neutral instead. ]

Perhaps.

[ He considers the choice he must soon facein his won world, and knows already what decision he will make. ]

Indeed. Some prices are too high.

[ The life of one man is not worth a world of darkness. ]

But they must still be paid. Sacrifices are unfair and hard to make but they are what help settle down the path for the future.

[A soft hum.]

It's no use worrying about it now, though. Nothing will change or be made yet, not in this state.

I trust you have had no problems finding the people you were really addressing to.

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