[ The cadence is familiar. It's not how Edelgard speaks to match the lack of retorts he's already noticed but it is how someone else he knows does. But - that someone isn't standing in front of him in a dress of Adrestian red and her hair wound into a horned headpiece he can't look away from even if he wants to. Someone else is.
The largely rational part of his mind is putting something else together now: it makes no sense that Edelgard would somehow have a key to their apartment to be here without anyone else around. If the emperor were in Cadens, they would know this as he'd said. She wouldn't be here dressed how he'd last seen her. The more he thinks about it, the more her visage blurs but it still comes right back into focus each time he blinks and keeps him locked into the tense stance he's kept the whole time. ]
Why do you sound like--
[ It's Petra's speech pattern, but still Edelgard's voice. Again Claude catches himself before completing that thought though this time not before most of it's out of his mouth. If there's clues to be given away here, he's not going to be responsible for it. At least, not past the uncertainty lacing through that half-formed question. ]
I don't- I don't understand.
[ An understatement. But maybe if whoever it is he's talking to keeps talking, it might be a start. ]
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The largely rational part of his mind is putting something else together now: it makes no sense that Edelgard would somehow have a key to their apartment to be here without anyone else around. If the emperor were in Cadens, they would know this as he'd said. She wouldn't be here dressed how he'd last seen her. The more he thinks about it, the more her visage blurs but it still comes right back into focus each time he blinks and keeps him locked into the tense stance he's kept the whole time. ]
Why do you sound like--
[ It's Petra's speech pattern, but still Edelgard's voice. Again Claude catches himself before completing that thought though this time not before most of it's out of his mouth. If there's clues to be given away here, he's not going to be responsible for it. At least, not past the uncertainty lacing through that half-formed question. ]
I don't- I don't understand.
[ An understatement. But maybe if whoever it is he's talking to keeps talking, it might be a start. ]