[ Sylvain looks at him, but it doesn't take Claude long to recognize signs of being uncomfortable again over something told to him that he feels is a truth. All of it is true to him even if there's an ache over what's in Sylvain's past to make him not believe it. To think this is too good to be true, and --
To think all of this might be too good to be true, Claude realizes with something which feels a little like being punched in the chest. He doesn't move as he continues to stare at Sylvain unflinchingly, not even when it feels like the ground sinks beneath him with the weight of it. The signs were there; he'd just chosen to look over them in denial. ]
And why would I do that?
[ It's a deliberate question asked with nothing else accompanying it. No convincing, no arguments ready to be made to bend belief back to what Claude wants it to be. He wants Sylvain to answer this without any guidance - just to find whatever honest response he has and to give it. ]
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To think all of this might be too good to be true, Claude realizes with something which feels a little like being punched in the chest. He doesn't move as he continues to stare at Sylvain unflinchingly, not even when it feels like the ground sinks beneath him with the weight of it. The signs were there; he'd just chosen to look over them in denial. ]
And why would I do that?
[ It's a deliberate question asked with nothing else accompanying it. No convincing, no arguments ready to be made to bend belief back to what Claude wants it to be. He wants Sylvain to answer this without any guidance - just to find whatever honest response he has and to give it. ]