[ The paths are familiar so that he walks them almost without thinking about it as he crosses to where the Horizon's blurred the edges of the city into the stone surroundings of the monastery. Ones that if they'd somehow been in Garreg Mach in person instead of here they would've been ones with equally worried footsteps he'd taken on many a late night during the war on those walks meant to clear his mind just as much as they'd focused it.
It's with nearly the same focus now that Claude follows the stairs by the dormitories he remembers just as well to where he'd once joked he could find Teach more often than not with a look of deep concentration. Or, well - what they'd come to recognize as concentration in those different looks Teach often had on, which was close enough. It's not Byleth who he sees out there on the dock now but the figure of someone else he could recognize anywhere and knows even better. ]
Add anything interesting to the pond lately?
[ An easy question to start with to announce his presence even before the steps he takes onto the dock will do so regardless. Something to start with, too, since what he has to ask certainly won't stop there as he takes a seat next to Sylvain and studies the other man's face very carefully while reaching for one of his hands to take in his. ]
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It's with nearly the same focus now that Claude follows the stairs by the dormitories he remembers just as well to where he'd once joked he could find Teach more often than not with a look of deep concentration. Or, well - what they'd come to recognize as concentration in those different looks Teach often had on, which was close enough. It's not Byleth who he sees out there on the dock now but the figure of someone else he could recognize anywhere and knows even better. ]
Add anything interesting to the pond lately?
[ An easy question to start with to announce his presence even before the steps he takes onto the dock will do so regardless. Something to start with, too, since what he has to ask certainly won't stop there as he takes a seat next to Sylvain and studies the other man's face very carefully while reaching for one of his hands to take in his. ]