Lucina and the other children walked into the dining hall. Wandering inside, they found all the Shepherds seated on their side of the dining room eating their breakfast while listening to Chrom talk about the future of Ylisse. Hearing the door open and the commotion of the children entering the dining hall, Chrom immediately stopped what he was saying to look at the intruders. Chrom then stood up and said, "Oh perfect, you are all just in time, we were just talking about my plans for the future of Ylisse and what is going to happen to the Shepherds now that the wars are over. Are all the children here? I think everybody should be here to listen to what I have to say. I know I never gave anybody a notice for this talk, but since I think everybody is here, we should get this over with."

Lucina was the first to respond, "No father, Severa is currently not with us right now."

Chrom replied, "Okay, Lucina, could be please get her to come to the dining hall?"

Lucina was less than enthusiastic to talk to Severa after the fight they just had. However, she could not reject her father's request because she did not want her father to know they argued earlier. Lucina agreed and told her father she will go fetch her.

After Lucina left, Chrom told all the other children to take a seat and get some food, and that he will talk while they are eating. Had Chrom looked more carefully, he would have seen the children were actually concerned about his request to send Lucina to fetch Severa. However, due to Chrom's lack of social experience, he did not see the worry in the children's eyes. Nobody wanted to interrupt Chrom while he continued his speech, so the children simply obeyed Chrom's request and began to grab plates for breakfast. Was it even possible for Lucina to even get Severa to the breakfast table? Lucina wasn't the type of person to apologize for something so miniscule and especially for something she did not do, and Severa is unlikely to nudge until she either got what she wanted or had somebody else besides Lucina fetch her. Knowing Severa, she would simply refuse Chrom's request on the grounds that Lucina was the one telling her the news.

Meanwhile, Lucina despondently walked towards Severa's room. She nervously knocked on her door. Severa opened the door and Lucina could immediately see the rage in her eyes as soon as she saw who interrupted her.

"What do you want, Lucina? Have you come here to apologize?"

"No, my father has requested your presence…."

"Lucina, I told you not to talk to me until you apologize. Until then, you can just bug off!"

Severa slammed the door shut. Lucina knew that Severa did not have an outgoing personality, but even she had not expected such a hostile reaction. Lucina felt like that reaction went too far. She knocked on the door and tried again. After there was no response, Lucina finally said:

"Severa. I'm just here to tell you we are having a meeting in the dining hall. My father has requested for you to come join us for a talk. You can get mad at me for all you want, but could you at least respect my father's wish?"

"Lucina. I told you to go away unless you are apologizing to me."

"But I just told you we had a meeting! You presence is needed right now."

"Are you deaf Lucina? I already told you I am not moving until you just admit to me you seduced Robin, went to bed with him, and out of guilt for you, your past, and your future, he sacrificed himself for you. Lucina, I don't know how stupid you think I am, but I am not budging until you apologize or admit that you were wrong. You are part of the reason he died."

"And Severa I told you also, your malicious statements are false. I am not going to apologize for something I did not do."

"Then you can forget about Chrom and your stupid meeting."

"Severa, can you put aside our differences for just one minute and come to the dining hall? I would have never asked this of you after what happened if it wasn't for my father's request."

"Only if you apologize to me."

"No deal."

"Then go away and stop bothering me."

In a last resort, Lucina tried to think of a way to blackmail Severa just like her mother did yesterday. However, she should could not think of a single incident to threaten her with, so Lucina gave up and started heading back to the dining hall. She immediately walked in and saw her friends already eating their breakfast while listening to Chrom talk about the future. Chrom once again saw her daughter enter the dining hall and stopped his speech. "Ahh. Perfect, Lucina. Thanks for getting Severa for me..." Chrom did not see Severa with his daughter and asked, "Wait. Lucina, I thought I told you to get Severa for me. Why isn't she here?"

Lucina looked down at the floor and quietly said, "Se…. had a fi….. all…. Why she… whe …en.. all…mat..said."

"Could you speak up please? I can't hear you."

Lucina raised head and her voice. She said in a much clearer tone, "Severa and I had a fight today before we came into the dining hall. That's why she wasn't with us when we entered the dining hall the first time. She was still mad at me and would not come to the dining hall no matter what I said."

Chrom was surprised to hear such a statement from her daughter. As far as he knew, his daughter was on good terms with all the Shepherds and the children. In fact, Lucina was close with all the children because they looked up to her as a leader in the future. Hearing a fight between Lucina and Severa was something he had not expected, and he sighed under his breath. Chrom admitted something like this was going to happen sooner or later now that the war was over and the children had no purpose to be united anymore, but did not expected it to happen the week they came back to the castle. He asked, "What were you two fighting about?"

Lucina simply said, "That is our business."

"Lucina, I am your father. If you are not getting along with somebody, don't you think I should also know of this so we can get the problem resolved? After all, I don't believe you two staying mad at each other forever is going to help. I know you two were close before, and I don't want you to lose a friend over an argument."

"We had a fight because we disagreed on something."

Chrom said, "Lucina, that is extremely vague. You literally told me nothing. Can you just explain in detail what you two were fighting about?"

Lucina did not know how long she could still dodge the question. There was no way she was telling her father about what they were arguing about. Although she could probably get her father to believe Severa was spreading malicious lies about her, part of her accusations were true, and there was concrete proof for it. Although Lucina knew she would have to eventually tell her father, she did not want to say it in front of all the Shepherds and the children. Instead, Lucina simply thought of ways to delay the question and simply replied with:

"Okay, Father, can we talk about this later privately? I don't want anybody else to know about this. Also, can I just go get some breakfast now? I am quite hungry."

Chrom gave up and said, "Okay, Lucina, we can talk about this later in my office." Chrom scanned the room for Severa's mother, and upon seeing her, said, "Cordelia, could you go fetch your daughters for me please? I think you might have better luck talking to her than my daughter."

Cordelia blushed and replied with a simple, "Leave it to me, Captain!" Cordelia immediately left the room.

Lucina walked over to the food counter and grabbed some bread, a bowl of broth, a glass of milk, eggs, and sausage. She sat down with the other children and listened to her father's speech. He changed topic and began talking about his plans to rebuild relations with Plegia as the first step to preventing war from occurring in the future. In the middle of eating her food, Severa and Cordelia walked in the room. Chrom stopped his conversation once again to welcome the new visitor and said,

"Severa. It's good to have you to join us here for a little talk for breakfast. I heard you and Lucina are currently not on good terms right now. I have to know, what were you and Lucina arguing about?"

There was a moment of silence around the room. Lucina covered her face with her hands and sent a silent prayer to Naga that Severa would keep her dirty mouth shut. However, it was no use, and Severa began to tell Chrom about everything that just happened this morning.

"Your daughter is in love with your tactician. You know, the one that just sacrificed himself about two weeks ago trying to kill Grima? You remember the outrage she had yesterday at dinner when she stormed out of the room? Well, it turns out your daughter does have a crush on him. In fact, I'd say too much. She's probably more obsessed with him than Tharja is at this point. I'd say she even seduced him with her beauty and slept with him. Some daughter you have, with a complete lack of morals. As if that wasn't bad enough, I think Robin sacrificed himself out of guilt for his lover. Robin probably felt too guilty about all the crimes he did in our future when he became Grima, so he just sacrificed himself as an apology to her. There was definitely a way for him to survive the battle with Grima, but he did not take it. It is just too big of a coincidence that he was the only Shepherd to die after all our battles."

The entire room was silent after hearing such a statement. All the Shepherds looked at Lucina. She did a quick glance towards the children, and although she could see their sympathy in their eyes, Lucina knew there was nothing they could do to help her now. Lucina glanced away and stared at Severa. If Lucina was upset yesterday, that was nothing compared to the rage she was feeling now at Severa. Lucina immediately got out of her seat and walked towards Severa with a feeling she did not know she possessed: pure hatred. In fact, her original plan was to punch Severa so hard that she would walk funny for the rest of her life. However, she managed to calm herself down a little when she realized everybody would have seen her beat up Severa. It would just ruin her reputation even more. Instead, Lucina got in front of her face and yelled out loud, "WHAT IN NAGA'S NAME DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING, SEVERA? TRYING TO RUIN MY REPUTATION WITH SLANDER? ARE YOU INSANE?"

Severa did not even see Lucina's anger. She simply exclaimed back with, "LUCINA, WHY ARE YOU MAD AT ME? IF YOU DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE FINDING OUT THE TRUTH, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SEDUCED HIM."

"SEVERA, WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF I TOLD EVERYBODY RIGHT NOW YOU MOST INNERMOST SECRETS OR TRIED TO RUIN MY REPUTATION WITH LIES? YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS NOT TRUE. MAYBE I SHOULD TELL MY FATHER ABOUT HOW YOU… HOW YOU… I DON'T KNOW… I'LL FIND SOMETHING EMBARRASSING ABOUT YOU AND TELL IT TO EVERYBODY. SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT!"

Cordelia was standing next to the two children when they started arguing and tried to break up the fight. She stepped in between the two and said, "Girls. Stop it. Now's not the time to argue about this." Chrom was also yelling at the two to stop fighting as all the Shepherds and children looked on in amusement. After all, the Shepherds have not had any drama since before the war when the world was at peace. Everybody was so serious during wartime, and arguments regarding relationships were nonexistent. In fact, now that the war was over, some of the Shepherds were watching the fight like a comedic play as they saw the drama between the two unfold.

Both Lucina and Severa ignored their parents and simply walked out of Cordelia's view to continue the argument. Even Chrom's complaints did not do a thing.

Severa responded back to Lucina's statement. "THAT'S BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING SCANDALOUS TO HAPPEN TO ME. IF YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO BE A TATTLETALE, YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AWAY FROM ROBIN."

"ALSO SEVERA, HOW COULD YOU HAVE JUST TOLD EVERYBODY? YOU ALSO KNOW THAT IS NOT TRUE. LOVING SOMEONE DOESN'T MEAN SEDUCING SOMEONE. ALSO, YOU COULD HAVE KEPT YOUR DIRTY MOUTH SHUT AND TOLD THEM SOMETHING ELSE, LIKE GETTING MAD AT ME FOR SPILLING YOUR TEA ON YOUR FAVORITE DRESS."

"OH, YOU NOW THINK THAT I SHOULD LIE TO COVER UP YOUR LIE? YOU ADMIT THE TRUTH NOW? HOW IRONIC!"

Chrom walked behind his daughter and grabbed her hand. Even though she tried to struggle, Chrom's iron fist held her back. She dragged her daughter back away from Severa's face while Cordelia stood in front of Severa to prevent the two from fighting further.

Chrom began with a simple, "Lucina, I am disappointed in you. I can't believe you and Severa would have a fight over Robin. He would be rolling in his grave right now if he heard what just happened, assuming he is not coming back. And at the dining hall no less. We will talk about this later after breakfast."

Chrom looked at Severa's mother and said, "Lady Cordelia, would you and Severa please join me after breakfast today with me and my daughter? I think we need to have a talk about what happened."

"Yes of course, Captain."

Chrom let go of Lucina and said, "Good. Now Lucina, I don't want to see any fights between the two of you again. I thought your behavior was better than this. "

Lucina felt ashamed and responded with a simple, "Yes father. I am sorry father, but Severa was spreading false rumors about me. I hope you can see through her lies."

Severa immediately fired back, "Lies? You're the one lying. You're just afraid of the truth."

"GIRLS!" Chrom and Cordelia both simultaneously yelled out.

Severa and Lucina both became quiet again and looked down at the floor in shame.

"Okay, Lady Cordelia, I think you should escort your daughter out of here until we have our talk later. I will update you two later on what happened in my speech. I don't think we can have two seconds with these two girls seeing each other before it devolves into a fight. Also, tell Severa to grab a plate for breakfast before she leaves. I don't want her to go hungry."

"Certainly, Captain Chrom."

Cordelia and Severa walked over to the breakfast table. Lucina watched as Severa began piling her plate with food.

Lucina turned her face back towards her father. She said, "Father. I… I can explain."

Chrom told her daughter, "I'm sure you can Lucina, but for now, go eat your breakfast and just forget this happened. Like I said, we will talk about this later with Severa after breakfast. Now go back to eating while I finish up my speech to the Shepherds. And if I don't want to catch you two fighting again. Don't make me regret my words yesterday when I said I was not going to get mad at you no matter what you did."

Lucina walked back to her table as Chrom went back to his seat to finish his speech. Lucina did not pay any attention to her father. For the second time in a week, she lost her temper. She simply sat down and tried to look as emotionless as she could. The other children began to whisper something towards Lucina, but she could not understand what they were saying because Chrom's charismatic voice drowned out all the whispers. Chrom, seeing the distraction at the kid's table, once again had to go off on a tangent and say, "Children, I know you want to talk to my daughter right now, but could you wait until I finish my speech? After all, you now have all the time in the world now that Grima has been slain, and my speech about the future of this country is very important."

All the children went back to eating breakfast as her father finished off his speech about his five year plan to repair the country from the devastating wars and move on to the future. Chrom told all the Shepherds they were dismissed and assigned each Shepherd tasks for the day. After Chrom finished his list, everybody started talking about what just happened between Lucina and Severa. Immediately the noise of rumors permeated throughout the air.

"So Lucina is in love with Robin?"

"She doesn't seem like the type of person to seduce anybody."

"She's slept with Robin?"

Lucina ignored all the conversations. Now that Chrom finished his speech, all the children were all trying to comfort Lucina by saying Severa was slandering her reputation and Lucina should not listen to what she said. However, Chrom walked over to the table where all the children were and said:

"All right everybody, I am sure you all have a lot you want to say to my daughter, but right now, I feel like I should be the one trying to find out all the facts before we make any conclusions. I don't want to hear any more rumors, true or false, from any of you. You are all excused. Since we don't have to fight in a war anymore, I guess just enjoy your new future. Explore the castle. Play tag in the courtyard. Do whatever. You can talk to her later after I am done with her."

All the children began to also exit the dining hall unwillingly. Noire told her "Good luck" when she walked by Lucina.

After all the Shepherds and children left the dining hall, Lucina looked back at her father. It was going to be another long day, Lucina realized.