What's put in his hands is nothing he's seen before. There's some amount of caution which should go with it, Claude's sure, but: one benefit to the Horizon is leaving and coming back if something goes Terribly Wrong. Or so he thinks, anyway, which is all the leeway he needs to inspect whatever it is Shepard's handed him.

It's unfamiliar, yes, but (in what might be a faulty assumption) weapons are weapons, and there's a weight to it that speaks of the power in it. The crossbows he'd experimented with in Nocwich were much the same given how much further they could send bolts than with his far more manual bow could ever hope to manage. Shepard's invitation mentioned blowing fingers off, so. Best to learn from the experts.

"If this is primitive, what sorts of things are you used to?" Curiosity wins out as it always does for Claude though he thinks he can venture a decent guess based on the remainder of the weapons rack though he hasn't the slightest what those do compared to what's in his hand. "And, maybe a better starting question, does this-" with a lift of said object - "have a specific name I should be calling it by? And since I can't say I'm about to take up either of those suggestions, this should work for practicing shots here."