Bernadetta, please allow me to speak frankly with you. Continue to look into my eyes, even if they are so light and unsettling. I wish you to know I am speaking the truth as I know it.

[With her other hand Edelgard now takes hold of both shoulders making sure Bernadetta is faced in her direction completely. Unable to turn away.]

You are, without a doubt, one hundred times better than your father. You have shown loyalty where he would show cowardice. Bernadetta I am proud to call you one of my Black Eagles.