[ He doesn't laugh. Doesn't even crack a smile to give Sylvain any of the levity he's seeking out with one of those things said for supposed comedic effect that Claude's figured out have either filaments of truth in them or are truths entirely as if saying them that way will make them be brushed aside. It's one of those things they share, he'd realized long ago, and if it wasn't for doing his best impression of a statue it'd be tempting to get his own grass to shred.
No reaction at all can be as encouraging as anything else, he's learned over the years. Encouraging being a relative term since it's almost always for dragging forth the rest of what's waiting to be said rather than offering that out, and this is no exception. It's not about the past - something Claude couldn't care less about other than being another fact about Sylvain. Another thing on the list of whatever was left behind in other lives, but he doesn't think that's really what Sylvain's trying to say.
It's worth waiting. It's also enough for him to study the other man in the quiet following before pushing himself up to sit up. ]
Don't know how to do 'better', huh. Are you sure about that? I can think of more than a few reasons why that's not true either.
[ The exasperation's not gone, not entirely, but it's enough to put it to the side momentarily to pull this away from where Sylvain's taking it. Regardless of whether Sylvain's planning to interrupt, Claude's going to keep right on talking. ]
I could start with Aquila, for one, and with everything else you'd planned when all I was supposed to do was wear a dress. Or quite a few dinners since then, and not just the ones attached to special occasions and more like just because as you'd said more than a couple times. I could certainly mention everything about a particular day in July and all that you put into making it happen when you didn't have to. Should I keep going?
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No reaction at all can be as encouraging as anything else, he's learned over the years. Encouraging being a relative term since it's almost always for dragging forth the rest of what's waiting to be said rather than offering that out, and this is no exception. It's not about the past - something Claude couldn't care less about other than being another fact about Sylvain. Another thing on the list of whatever was left behind in other lives, but he doesn't think that's really what Sylvain's trying to say.
It's worth waiting. It's also enough for him to study the other man in the quiet following before pushing himself up to sit up. ]
Don't know how to do 'better', huh. Are you sure about that? I can think of more than a few reasons why that's not true either.
[ The exasperation's not gone, not entirely, but it's enough to put it to the side momentarily to pull this away from where Sylvain's taking it. Regardless of whether Sylvain's planning to interrupt, Claude's going to keep right on talking. ]
I could start with Aquila, for one, and with everything else you'd planned when all I was supposed to do was wear a dress. Or quite a few dinners since then, and not just the ones attached to special occasions and more like just because as you'd said more than a couple times. I could certainly mention everything about a particular day in July and all that you put into making it happen when you didn't have to. Should I keep going?