[ Claude's only vaguely aware of the tension running through him as he remains in place where he is past the one movement he'd made. It stays coiled, like he's going to suddenly indulge in his old pastime of fleeing when convenient, but these days: backing down isn't an option.
Not even when Sylvain shifts too in a motion he knows and avoids looking at him like there's something inevitable on the horizon, though he doesn't understand what it could be until it hits with those next words. This time it's a familiar pain which washes over him like a tidal wave. It's the same when Hilda pointed out something he'd said which he thought was so clear had been taken a very different way - one that'd caused her pain, and it doesn't take much to see that's the case here where he'd repeated it yet again.
A mistake. He's made many between both of them with a list to be made up for, but it doesn't feel like his choice to decide if he gets to do that here. This time when Claude speaks it's with a roughness around the edges even he can't smooth away. ]
And if I still want everything else beyond that, too? Just as I did when I said it?
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Not even when Sylvain shifts too in a motion he knows and avoids looking at him like there's something inevitable on the horizon, though he doesn't understand what it could be until it hits with those next words. This time it's a familiar pain which washes over him like a tidal wave. It's the same when Hilda pointed out something he'd said which he thought was so clear had been taken a very different way - one that'd caused her pain, and it doesn't take much to see that's the case here where he'd repeated it yet again.
A mistake. He's made many between both of them with a list to be made up for, but it doesn't feel like his choice to decide if he gets to do that here. This time when Claude speaks it's with a roughness around the edges even he can't smooth away. ]
And if I still want everything else beyond that, too? Just as I did when I said it?