Byleth pauses and thinks, trying to come up with some way for him to relay Bernie's current height to Hilda without lifting the shrunken student out of the pocket, but he couldn't think of anything. So sighing, he reaches gently into the pocket, scooping Bernie out.
Before he could do anything else, though, Hilda squealed in glee.
That was exactly the response that Byleth expected, and it was exactly the reason he had been apprehensive about showing his charge to Hilda directly. He tries to pull Bernie closer to him, but he's not fast enough. Hilda wraps her hand around Bernie, lifting her off of her professor's palm.
"She's so cute!" Hilda exclaims. She pulls Bernie towards her cheek, the shrunken student clearly frantic but the pink-haired student not caring. "I could -"
"No!" Marianne suddenly says. "Don't say that right now! Can't you see she's already frightened?"
"O-Oh, yeah," Hilda says. "I guess that wouldn't be a good thing to say. But she's just like a living doll!"
Byleth was confused. He had never really been around people enough to have ever heard their reaction to cute things. What was Hilda about to say and how would it make things worse?
Well, to be fair, in Bernie's current state, anything Hilda said would make things worse, but that was due to Bernie's trauma. There was no way for Marianne to know that, considering how much Bernie hid in her room.
"Just...give her back to the professor," Marianne says, pleading with Hilda. "Yes, she's cute, but you're freaking her out - and you might be making her sick with all that movement."
Hilda pauses, then sighs. Byleth cups his hands, and Hilda slowly - almost too slowly, it seemed like she had understood Marianne's words and was now overcompensating - lowers Bernie into them.
"You've seen how small she is now," Byleth says, tucking Bernie back into the pocket. "At the current moment, I know that I need a bed for her. If you can think of anything else she might need, let me know."
Hilda nods, and heads towards her dorm.
Byleth then...
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