- Karna and Cyrus (B):

Karna: Hey, how are you doing in there?

Cyrus: Could be better. But why the library of all places?!

Karna: You can read in here if you want.

Cyrus: That's not the point! I mean, why am I stuck in cleaning duty in one of the most horizontally-cramped rooms in all of Garreg Mach?!

Karna: That's the point. Now chop chop, the library ain't gonna clean itself.

*Cyrus cleans the library while Karna reads all of the piled books that need to go on their shelves*

Karna: Good! That wasn't so bad, wasn't it?

Cyrus: No, it was awful. There were mice up at the counters.

Karna: Yet I didn't hear screaming.

Cyrus: They're small, so why should I be afraid of them?!

Karna: To you maybe. But to the mice, you're the big one.

Cyrus: Pardon?

Karna: Cyrus, the world cannot be solely defined the binary of "small" or "big." Rather, everything we see how big or small the world is can only be put into perspective. To you, civilizations are "small" because you lived in the steppe throughout your whole life, right?

Cyrus: Nothing was getting in the way, that's for sure.

Karna: I think it's wonderful that people can live just about anywhere around the world when they put their minds to it. But in turn, no one can comprehend living on the other side because they know nothing. It's a self-imposed myopia that we humans have just to make sense in a world which chaos is the natural order. Not everyone nor everywhere is like you. People adapt to simply not die, just like how your ancestors adapted to living in the steppe.

Cyrus: ... For which I will never understand. If people can easily be divided just by where they live, then why bother understanding? If misunderstandings make enemies, then the best option is to kill them.

Karna: So why haven't you killed us when you had the chance?

Cyrus: Maybe... maybe you guys remind me of the people I would be around back at Battu. Aside from Darius, I don't have anything that tethers me back home, and the longer I stay in Fodlan, the more chances that these schemers will have trying to cut the only knot that I have left and forcibly make me join them instead! I don't have a problem with where I am! I have a problem with the people that shove their values to my face!

Karna: ... Damn. Guess fear is your strongest motivator, ain't it?

Cyrus: It helps me remember who I am. I'm Battuian. I'm no one else.

Karna: Think whatever that makes you content.