I'll take the old fashioned way any day, even if it's really more like the present fashioned way to me since there's no instant for it where I'm from. Well, maybe if you use fire magic rather than heating the water over a fire, but that's still mostly the same concept. I usually do the same whenever someone visits. Something's calming about the ritual in a way that doesn't happen with it just appearing.

[ A slight grin as he watches the brewing process, something he's very familiar with from home and here. Of course, Fodlan's teatimes had always been a bit proper even with Teach and his strange lack of etiquette despite growing up in Fodlan, unlike himself. It's easy to pretend, sometimes, that tea in the Horizon is much like those times again.

Reminiscing will have to be saved for later because what Claire says next has Claude's attention riveted back on her in an instant. ]

You've time traveled? Within your own time?

[ That's what he's hearing, at least, and it's startling. The idea of being from different times within the same world was one he hadn't encountered before arriving in Abraxas, and he's not sure how to begin explaining that. There's an automatic genial smile at Hilda being able to spin this into an exciting tale, but behind it Claude's already calculating what to ask next. ]

How did that work, if you don't mind me asking?