[ For a second Claude does nothing but stare. A cube? Is that really a thing? Asking himself this then makes the unsaid context behind 'sphere' sink in very belatedly and, well. Nothing to do but laugh at that and himself. ]
Okay, you got me there. Ours is certainly also a sphere based on the globes used by researchers, but we don't usually refer to the world by the shape. More like by country or continent, if anything.
[ He'll shrug that off though not without another chuckle at his own expense first. It's a good thing to get some humor in since hearing Geralt and Ciri don't recall the same things is both a comfort and anything but. It leaves him with more questions, but he nods slowly in response. ]
I knew them from the same academy we all attended, but we ended up on different sides of the war. One of them comes from the morning of something I lived months ago, and the other knows of something that never happened for me. If it had, it would've changed everything about what happened. Nothing I did would've then been possible.
[ That's the least complicated explanation he knows how to give, especially given that he does consider them friends despite everything. Sometimes that's the hardest part to reconcile now, something increasingly weighing on his mind the longer they go without talking about it all. But - can't change the past if that's what it is, and they're here now to deal with it.
At some point Claude's gaze shifted to the desert out before them, but now he glances back at Geralt and adds dryly, ] Hopefully your situation is also that delightfully uncomplicated.
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Okay, you got me there. Ours is certainly also a sphere based on the globes used by researchers, but we don't usually refer to the world by the shape. More like by country or continent, if anything.
[ He'll shrug that off though not without another chuckle at his own expense first. It's a good thing to get some humor in since hearing Geralt and Ciri don't recall the same things is both a comfort and anything but. It leaves him with more questions, but he nods slowly in response. ]
I knew them from the same academy we all attended, but we ended up on different sides of the war. One of them comes from the morning of something I lived months ago, and the other knows of something that never happened for me. If it had, it would've changed everything about what happened. Nothing I did would've then been possible.
[ That's the least complicated explanation he knows how to give, especially given that he does consider them friends despite everything. Sometimes that's the hardest part to reconcile now, something increasingly weighing on his mind the longer they go without talking about it all. But - can't change the past if that's what it is, and they're here now to deal with it.
At some point Claude's gaze shifted to the desert out before them, but now he glances back at Geralt and adds dryly, ] Hopefully your situation is also that delightfully uncomplicated.