[Ah, so that was it. Dimitri's shoulders relax slightly as he steps into a more conversational distance, chuckling.]

Well, I was simply thinking that I did not want to have to live so far away in Fhirdiad. It is as simple as that for children of that age, is it not?

[That simplicity is something he certainly envies now. If only it were still as easy to just say "let's stay together" without all the complications time and age have inflicted upon them.]