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Hanneman enters the scene
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Dorothea
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Professor Hanneman. How unexpected.
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Hanneman
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Hello, Miss Dorothea. There is something I would like to ask you, should you have a moment.
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Dorothea
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And whatever would that be, Professor?
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Hanneman
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Ah, it's just some rumor I heard. About your prejudice against the nobility.
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Hanneman
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You remember when you came to me before, and we talked about how I used to be noble?
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Hanneman
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I was just wondering what your aim was.
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Dorothea
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To clarify, I only hate nobles who are obsessed with their status.
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Dorothea
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You're not that kind of man, Professor. I mean that, really. And it sounds like you never were.
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Hanneman
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I see. But hating nobles obsessed with their status...
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Hanneman
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You must have had some terrible experience in the past. Ah... My apologies. That was rather presumptuous.
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Dorothea
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No, it's fine. As I'm sure you know, I was a highly praised songstress for a time...
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Dorothea
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Before I was a singer though, I was an orphan. And before that I was the daughter of a noble's maid.
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Hanneman
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My goodness... From an orphan to a renowned songstress. That is quite a life you have led, Miss Dorothea.
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Dorothea
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Well, I don't remember much of my early years.
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Dorothea
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My father was never there, and my mother was driven out of the noble house where she worked. Before long, she fell ill...
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Dorothea
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I was always alone, and I lived in the alleys of the Imperial capital, just trying to survive from one day to the next.
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Hanneman
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I see...
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Dorothea
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Eventually, after I became a singer... I met the nobleman that I think is my father.
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Hanneman
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Oh?
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Dorothea
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He'd had a child with a maid, but the child didn't have a Crest...
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Dorothea
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So he threw them both away. Those were his very words. I can't prove that he really was my father, but... I suppose it doesn't matter.
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Dorothea
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He didn't know who I was, and when he flirted with me, my feelings were something beyond fury. I was dumbfounded.
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Dorothea
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In truth, I felt that way about all of the nobles who flocked around me, yet would just as easily have tossed me away should it better suit them.
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Hanneman
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You have my most heartfelt of apologies, Dorothea. I am afraid my curiosity has opened old wounds.
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Hanneman
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Sadly, it is undeniable that the nobility is full of such terrible people.
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Perhaps...even myself...
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Dorothea
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Professor?
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Hanneman
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Oh, it is nothing. Just lost in a memory of my own.
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Hanneman
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Just know that I will do my part to ensure that you always know kindness in this world.
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Dorothea
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I... Thank you.