He cannot deny that she speaks the truth regarding the likelihood that she would be well-liked in the military but he actually thinks here that perhaps she underestimates his sway. If he said that she was enlisting and had his approval, he has little doubt that the Knights Most Heavenly would take her in. That she would then face discrimination at best and outright hatred at worst is inevitable but then, it isn't as though he was immediately and warmly accepted either.

It's the nobles who are the problem, he thinks, those who have lost sons and daughters in the war effort in recent years rather than a slow descent of misery like in the Brume. She's proven herself enough to the common man, he thinks, for her to have little problem there, but all of that accounts for nothing if those with the power and influence despise her. Still, while he doesn't think the military impossible for her, he cannot deny he would rather have her as a free agent.

"My hope is that such hopes prove founded and such resolve proves itself unnecessary, both," it's polite, humble, but he decides after a moment to dare more. She will be his wife, after all, and while such a thing is a purely political matter, he does wish to show her more of who he is when he is not the Lord Commander.

"I... do not think it is a foolish notion. Is it not what you are doing now? What we are doing? There is yet much and more to be done before I would call what we have peace, and yet, if we are not among it's stewards, then who else would you name?" Warmer, but still too formal. It is difficult, to try to set it aside. He tries again,

"To be a force of change in Ishgard is not a burden I ever thought I would share. But it is one I would gladly have rest in more than I."