[ Sylvain disappears and for a second Claude forgets this is unnerving with as much as they've been bounced in and out of the Horizon while trying to arrive. That's even before accounting for the way reality is shifting for them in person - or has already shifted and then some - and it's not until they react and Petra looks to him that things click into place.
Or perhaps it's because he can feel the pull back to consciousness himself, much as he's trying to fight it and that infernal dizziness which shifts the ground beneath him. Claude sways with it whether the grass beneath them actually moves or not as he sits up with a shake of his head. ]
Neither of us have been able to stay for long when we've come here, and it seems like others can't either. [ It's guilt rather than a cough which chokes him then as he looks between them both. How could he have forgotten to mention this when they'd arrived? ] I'll tell Sylvain to come back when, [ if, ] he can, and I'll do the same.
Both of you stick together. Whatever this is, I don't want to find either of you in there with us.
[ He stops just to clear his throat and to squeeze both of their hands for whatever reassurance that might provide. There's more he wanted to say, more he wanted to add, and didn't intend on stopping there. He just needs a moment to mentally shake off the world starting to spin around him.
But much like Sylvain, Claude doesn't get to finish his train of thought by starting the next part of it before one instant he's there, and the next he is not. ]
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Or perhaps it's because he can feel the pull back to consciousness himself, much as he's trying to fight it and that infernal dizziness which shifts the ground beneath him. Claude sways with it whether the grass beneath them actually moves or not as he sits up with a shake of his head. ]
Neither of us have been able to stay for long when we've come here, and it seems like others can't either. [ It's guilt rather than a cough which chokes him then as he looks between them both. How could he have forgotten to mention this when they'd arrived? ] I'll tell Sylvain to come back when, [ if, ] he can, and I'll do the same.
Both of you stick together. Whatever this is, I don't want to find either of you in there with us.
[ He stops just to clear his throat and to squeeze both of their hands for whatever reassurance that might provide. There's more he wanted to say, more he wanted to add, and didn't intend on stopping there. He just needs a moment to mentally shake off the world starting to spin around him.
But much like Sylvain, Claude doesn't get to finish his train of thought by starting the next part of it before one instant he's there, and the next he is not. ]