conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  Once there, May and Aleah immediately rushed to Claire.
conversations.prefix: Dole:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Welcome home, Mama Claire!"
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Welcome home, Mother Claire!"
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Thank you, dears. I'm home." Claire smiled happily and kissed their foreheads.
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Um, I'm here too, you know?"
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Welcome home, Mama Rae."
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Welcome home."
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "So cold." I sighed. It's fine… I'm not sad, not one bit.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "The two of us have to talk with Father. Can you girls go play in your room?"
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Is it something bad?"
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "I wish to talk with Grandfather as well!" Hmm? Is Master Dole more popular with the kids than me? I'm not jealous… No, definitely not.
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "I'm sorry, May, Aleah. But we need to talk about grown-up things. I'll come play with you later, so please let it slide this once."
conversations.prefix: Dole:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Okaaay, but you need to pinky promise!"
conversations.prefix: May:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Pinky promise, Grandfather!" May and Aleah made pinky promises with Dole before going to their room. It was a minor detail but still odd to see someone make a pinky promise in this medieval Europe-based world. Just another strange, out-of-place touch of Japanese culture rearing its head.
conversations.prefix: Aleah:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Will the living room do, Father? Rae, can you serve some tea?"
conversations.prefix: Dole:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Yes, ma'am."
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Thank you."
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  I started to prepare some black tea as they sat at the table.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Is it true Sousse is proposing a summit?" Claire asked, too eager to wait for the tea—which was fine, as I was still in earshot.
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "Yes. The notice arrived a short while ago. It seems Queen Manaria is the one who proposed it." Manaria was putting everything she had into being a diplomat. She was even the one who'd suggested the three-nation alliance.
conversations.prefix: Dole:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "I don't understand why she wants this now, of all times. Shouldn't the establishment of the three-nation alliance take precedence?"
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  I brought over the tea, passed it to the other two, and sat down myself.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "This is just my theory, but I think Queen Manaria is worried that establishing the alliance will create a clear divide between the Nur Empire and the three nations." Dole sipped the tea, then complimented it, much to my delight.
conversations.prefix: Dole:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "But hasn't that always been the case? I thought the three-nation alliance was meant to prepare for the coming war with the empire?"
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Not quite. The goal of the alliance was to prevent the empire from taking further aggressive action—in other words, to achieve a peaceful victory by amassing more force than the empire."
conversations.prefix: Dole:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  "So that's no longer possible, then."
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  "Indeed." Dole grimaced. "The peace treaty the empire sent Bauer before the alliance could be formed bought them time."
conversations.prefix: Dole: