I made it up to the stopping point in Lloyd's Act 2 and started Rean's Act 2 in Trails Into Reverie.
In Armorica Village, Lloyd reunites with Elie. We learn that Speaker MacDowell was shot in the chaos, and KeA went missing, to boot. Elie blames herself for it because she chose to tend to her grandfather at KeA's prompting. I thought Lloyd encouraging her and helping her overcome her guilt was a great scene here. I'm not a Lloyd/Elie guy, but the game makes me more willing to accept it with scenes like this than Rean/Alisa!
Elie also had a chance to speak to Dieter, who's pretty evasive when she asks him why he would join up with Rufus considering he was pro-independence at any cost before. He talks about how he's come up with his own reasons and isn't being manipulated by Mariabell anymore, and he tells Elie to consider what "justice" actually means, for some reason.
We also get an interesting exchange involving Rixia and Shanshan (whose name I now know how to pronounce since I finally heard it spoken!). Shanshan is oddly possessive of Rixia, but then we get a brief glimpse of her giving off that strange aura. I'm sure this will come up again soon enough. Rixia also receives a ransom note saying they have "the dancer" and the Zero Child at the Ancient Battlefield. Everyone immediately assumes the dancer is Ilya, but why couldn't it be Sully? Guess we'll find out once we can advance the story!
When we transition to Rean, he's arrived in Heimdallr with Altina and Ash, and they meet up with Kurt's mother. We get a quick summation of where everyone went and what they planned to do, and then we're off to search for clues about C with the help of Elise (whom I already knew would be tagging along since we saw her with Rean in C's route). It seems Elliot is in Heimdallr, too, so I guess we'll be meeting up with him soon!