Suspense as a reason isn't good enough? It's certainly worked for you before.
[ Claude follows that up with a speculative hum as if he's suddenly reevaluating several things all at once with that supposed revelation from the other man. Not that even he buys his own words past anything beyond yet another way to tease since there's no stating enough how much that works on them both, but. Now's not the time for that or a repeat of scaring the poor merchant in Aquila. Or not intentionally, anyway.
As they pause at a corner to let a heavily weighed down wagon go by at a slow speed on its way across town, the rest of that sinks in and he elbows Sylvain lightly like that was a deep blow to his reputation. ]
Also, hey! If I were going to lead you in circles I certainly wouldn't announce it first. There is a destination to this if you can be patient for a couple more streets. I promise you'll like where we're going to end up.
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[ Claude follows that up with a speculative hum as if he's suddenly reevaluating several things all at once with that supposed revelation from the other man. Not that even he buys his own words past anything beyond yet another way to tease since there's no stating enough how much that works on them both, but. Now's not the time for that or a repeat of scaring the poor merchant in Aquila. Or not intentionally, anyway.
As they pause at a corner to let a heavily weighed down wagon go by at a slow speed on its way across town, the rest of that sinks in and he elbows Sylvain lightly like that was a deep blow to his reputation. ]
Also, hey! If I were going to lead you in circles I certainly wouldn't announce it first. There is a destination to this if you can be patient for a couple more streets. I promise you'll like where we're going to end up.