Insightful, with a precious gem

"Hello there." Byleth said as he approached Dimitri. Given the other two had approached him first, he decided to try this 'initiative' thing with the last house leader.

"Ah, greetings. Please accept my apologies for the other day. You came to our aid, yet I hadn't even the courtesy to properly introduce myself. I am Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, crown prince of the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus." Byleth suddenly realized he'd skipped his introduction as well. "And I realized I need to introduce myself as well. My name is Byleth." He said, briefly interrupting Dimitri. The crown prince took it in stride. "Do not trouble yourself with that. At the academy I am simply a student. And I've heard word that you are to become a professor here. Delightful news. I still have much to learn, but I'm confident I could benefit greatly from your guidance. In any case, welcome to the monastery. I hear you're investigating the different houses. Did any of the Blue Lions catch your attention?"

"Well, I haven't met any of them yet." Byleth admitted. "Could you tell me more about them?"

Dimitri was quite polite discussing his team. He avoided much about himself (definitely has some trauma in his past). Dedue was his loyal vassal and one of the survivors of the Tragedy of Duscur, even Byleth had heard of that from a few of his mercenary jobs. Felix sounded like the type he'd have been more interested in meeting in terms of skill, had Sothis not fallen into his head (and lamp). Ashe seemed like a good student if that had been his only criteria.

When it came to the guys, though, Sylvain sounded oddly... directly applicable to him right now. "Sylvain is the heir to House Gautier. He is a capable person who highly values his friends. That said... Well, he's always been a bit of a...ahem, skirt chaser, so to speak. Pardon my bluntness. I speak with him about it often, but it doesn't seem to help." Dimitri had described him. It was distinctly possible he could end up like that with Sothis in his head.

'Only more successful.' Sothis giggled in response, the horny brain gremlin finding his concern funny. 'But you could always make a wish to prevent that. And please, I prefer 'Horny Brain Genie'.' She finished with a playful 'hmph'.

Dimitri then went on to describing the girls, which he was still interested in hearing. "Annette is Baron Dominic's niece. She is a talented student who scored extremely high marks at the Royal School of Sorcery. She's cheerful and hardworking. Brilliant, really. Though she can be a bit oblivious at times. I hear she caused an explosion in the kitchen last night..." All right, be careful trusting her with food, got it. "Ingrid is Count Galatea's daughter. She is also a childhood friend of Felix, Sylvain and myself. She is diligent, industrious, and principled. In truth, she is more knightly than most knights you will ever meet." Sounded like a down to earth figure, though that raised questions as to how she handled Sylvain.

The last girl, though, seemed quite special: Mercedes. "I hear she was born to Imperial nobility, but a twist of fate brought her to the Kingdom. She may seem carefree on the surface, but she's actually a kind soul who pays careful attention to everyone around her." He couldn't say why yet, but she seemed to be different in some way to the others, though he couldn't say why.

'She may like girls.' Sothis commented, causing him to jump internally. 'you may be getting some sex genie intuition there~!" She had another bout of giggles at his response, though he was composed as ever outside.

"Thank you for your time, Dimitri. That was quite helpful." He bowed to Dimitri, who bowed back.

"My pleasure. I'm glad I could help." He replied. Byleth nodded again as he left, resuming his wandering as he thought. What to do next?