[ The familiar banter is easy to help her forget that she's conflicted about Claude in the first place. This is all she wants with him, she thinks. It doesn't have to be anything more than this. She could learn to enjoy this easiness for simply what it is. Greediness doesn't have to play a part here, not when her heart already feels full as it is. ]

Did you really think that a different world was going to stop me from reminding you how awful some of your ideas are? I have to make Lorenz proud somehow. [ She gives him a world weary sigh as if a small part of her didn't enjoy pointing out the flaws in some of his plans. At the same time, she returns the squeeze of his hand even as her lips creep back into a smile. ] It's exhausting doing this on my own! I'm going to have run up a tab or something for Lorenz to make up for all the work he's making me do.

[ Purposefully she leaves out the when. It's unclear, even to her, whether or not she wants Lorenz to wind up here. The last series of events have proven that they're no safer here than during a war. But she misses him, despite all his winging and Lorenzisms - not that she'd admit it.

Her eyebrow cocks but when she replies, it sounds more like she's pleased with the answer he's given her. ]

You're really going to leave that up to me? Even if it's ridiculous? I don't think I've recovered from Sylvain questioning my tastes the first time around.

[ As if she's waste beautiful beads on something ridiculous. But it's fun to joke about it all the same. ]