[ If he'd been searching for the right loose thread to pull on to unravel something, it seems he's found it.
Claude wills himself to hear in there what he wants to, what he needs it to be, even if there's still questions he wants to ask. But - that's not uncommon for what it is in what he's found when it comes to Sylvain being willing to tell him things without prying first, without running his hands over well-built armor to inspect for somewhere to wedge his grasp into. And more often than not, he's found, he's met with an easy smile as if to suggest there's nothing else hidden beneath.
For now, in this moment, he tells himself this answer is enough. Because it is: as much as it can be, maybe this is what they have to offer each other. What we've been doing. What we'll continue doing. It's not the first time he's taken feelings and sank them beneath everything else in the same way as those smiles work - nor is this the first time Claude's contemplated how he's managed to repeat this. If Sylvain's trusted him enough to extend this much, he can do the same. The rest can wait. ]
Alright. [ It's a decidedly underwhelming response to what was said, he knows, but it's only the start. Unwinding himself a bit from the slightly withdrawn position he'd taken, Claude extends a hand out to Sylvain to hold it palm up for him to take with a tentative smile. ] If that's the plan, what do you say we figure it out together?
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Claude wills himself to hear in there what he wants to, what he needs it to be, even if there's still questions he wants to ask. But - that's not uncommon for what it is in what he's found when it comes to Sylvain being willing to tell him things without prying first, without running his hands over well-built armor to inspect for somewhere to wedge his grasp into. And more often than not, he's found, he's met with an easy smile as if to suggest there's nothing else hidden beneath.
For now, in this moment, he tells himself this answer is enough. Because it is: as much as it can be, maybe this is what they have to offer each other. What we've been doing. What we'll continue doing. It's not the first time he's taken feelings and sank them beneath everything else in the same way as those smiles work - nor is this the first time Claude's contemplated how he's managed to repeat this. If Sylvain's trusted him enough to extend this much, he can do the same. The rest can wait. ]
Alright. [ It's a decidedly underwhelming response to what was said, he knows, but it's only the start. Unwinding himself a bit from the slightly withdrawn position he'd taken, Claude extends a hand out to Sylvain to hold it palm up for him to take with a tentative smile. ] If that's the plan, what do you say we figure it out together?