Huh, with the early impression of Claire through the flashbacks and stuff I thought she'd be a bit more cold, cool to see she really did for care Lienna and was just awkward as hell with it. ^_^
It’s cute and honestly very relatable in some aspects. She can see the way her childhood friend is going and knows how this will end, but has been conditioned into thinking that she can’t divert it, so all she can do is watch.
Also it’s cute seeing how… normal I guess? Seeing how normal Claire’s ideas of helping Lienna are. Just getting her some food, taking her on a walk, making sure she gets a nap. Perhaps the reason she didn’t do it is because that would be a connection between them as people, and doing that would weaken Lienna’s will as knight commander if Claire were in danger in battle.
Cute moment between Lienna and Lily as well.
Also baffling how people are still convincing themselves that the women in this manga are only important for how sexually available they are to the men around them. Is this really the hill people are willing to die on? Looking at a woman who’s torn over her own inability to act for the person she trained with together as a child, both pushing their limits, for the sake of the organization she’s dedicated her life to and then going “oh yeah, she absolutely wants to fuck that 14 year old boy.”
Also I do wish Lienna was more hung up on this and did get pissed at Lily, or that later on she’s revealed to have suppressed her own emotions for the sake of keeping the peace. As much as she is a paragon of forgiveness, seeing her just passively accept tragedy for the sake of not ruffling any feathers does not feel like a development from her former mindset. She deserves to be pissed and selfish.