[ Kyle's statement of visiting other worlds is enough to get a laugh from Claude and that breaks whatever fleeting melancholy there is on his part. He's about to make a quip about not tempting the fates or whatever it is which guided them here, but what Kyle voices is more interesting.

Far more interesting, and it only takes but a second for the possibilities of such a thing being true to spiral out in Claude's mind. To his questions about how they've arrived here, to how the differences in time (or more) work between him and his friends, to the importance Solvunn places upon the gods in question. ]

I didn't know that. [ That's absolutely a placeholder for a better reaction just as soon as he can stop trying to follow all of those loose threads to their ends while they walk. It's not disbelief, however, given there's been so much recently that's pushed him more towards the side of believing it rather than instant skepticism. ] If that were true, it'd certainly explain how we were able to be Summoned here. That, perhaps, the Summoning isn't nearly as abstract as it seems when we first arrive here and that there's another quality to that connection we have with the Singularity since being kept in the pit only solidified my belief it's more complicated than I'd thought.

[ Given all the ways in which their captors knew to block what connections they have that were restored nearly as soon as they'd escaped. It's still fascinating - it could also explain the sheer differences in worlds more so than what the Church of Seiros had presented as the founding of Fodlan which never seemed to add up in his own mind. And for good reason, as it turned out, but even that talked about just one place. ]

Reverse Summoning might actually not be as much of a joke as I'd meant it, in that case. And it would stand to reason that if there's a method to bring us here, there's also one to send us home beyond however it is Summoned occasionally disappear from Abraxas for good.