They may not entirely know where they are right at this moment, and they might be within a forest which has plenty of secrets and traps the Summoned have stumbled across both individually and together while finding somewhere to set up something like camp, and there might be an unknown number of challenges yet to come. There's also the absence now of those he'd spent time with in Thorne, and worry for where they are that isn't here when he'd much prefer to keep everyone in one place if they can't return home. All of it stays present in Claude's mind the longer he's here in the forest.
But at the same time: none of that removes the sense of relief of seeing faces he hasn't seen for what feels like much longer than only a month, especially when he'd become used to seeing them either every day or close enough to it. There'd been no substitute for the relief he'd felt upon seeing Jesper again, and no hiding how his face lit up with it. And despite his longstanding habit of hiding his true feelings about something to keep them to himself, there'd been none of that here.
The two of them having plenty of restless energy was all Claude needed to recruit Jesper to assist in looking for whatever supplies they can gather to bring back to supplement what's at the camp slowly forming. His own strengths absolutely aren't in the assembly of any campsite what with admittedly having little experience with that part of it since he'd been more focused on other things, so looking for food or water it is.
"Now I'm wishing I'd brought my other notebook with my notes on Nocwich's plants with me," is what he grumbles just slightly while using the tip of an arrow to lift some foliage to check beneath it, as if any of them could've planned for what to bring here or when the portals malfunctioned. As it was he'd been too focused on asking Sylvain to bring some of his antidotes in an abundance of wariness, but now he's relieved he had as he glances over to where Jesper might be. "Maybe it'd give us some clues since this forest reminds me of the one there with what grows in the dark, but we'll have to do our best to guess. Have you found anything yet?"
jesper / closed
But at the same time: none of that removes the sense of relief of seeing faces he hasn't seen for what feels like much longer than only a month, especially when he'd become used to seeing them either every day or close enough to it. There'd been no substitute for the relief he'd felt upon seeing Jesper again, and no hiding how his face lit up with it. And despite his longstanding habit of hiding his true feelings about something to keep them to himself, there'd been none of that here.
The two of them having plenty of restless energy was all Claude needed to recruit Jesper to assist in looking for whatever supplies they can gather to bring back to supplement what's at the camp slowly forming. His own strengths absolutely aren't in the assembly of any campsite what with admittedly having little experience with that part of it since he'd been more focused on other things, so looking for food or water it is.
"Now I'm wishing I'd brought my other notebook with my notes on Nocwich's plants with me," is what he grumbles just slightly while using the tip of an arrow to lift some foliage to check beneath it, as if any of them could've planned for what to bring here or when the portals malfunctioned. As it was he'd been too focused on asking Sylvain to bring some of his antidotes in an abundance of wariness, but now he's relieved he had as he glances over to where Jesper might be. "Maybe it'd give us some clues since this forest reminds me of the one there with what grows in the dark, but we'll have to do our best to guess. Have you found anything yet?"