[ The words are likely platitudes at best - something Claude knows well from feeling the same about his parents telling him the same during worse moments - but. Maybe if he's lucky they'll sink in anyway, or seem less trite, or--
Or he'll get the response he gets from Wilhelm. At first he merely blinks, the only sign of being caught ever so slightly off-guard by what Claude sees as an abrupt change from the politeness before. Then it's there a second later as Wilhelm clearly looks uncomfortable, and Claude studies him just to give him some time to recover before offering a snort of laughter. Easy enough to breeze right on by if that's what the other prefers based on looking like he's wishing the ground might swallow him whole at this point in time, and to put all the usual charm back into play (unknowingly) with or without Sannleikr's help. ]
Wilhelm. I just told you I used to hear some pretty terrible things so believe me, being told I talk too much? That's not only true, but so far down on the list of the worst things I've been told that it doesn't even rank.
[ Now he tilts his head, considering. With everything that's been going on, attitudes being different hadn't been something he'd mentally kept on the list of everything going wrong. Sure, Sylvain's mood hasn't been great and Petra's is understandably also varied, but is it one more to add to the list? Who even knows. ]
Regardless, you don't have to listen to me. For all you know I'm just some guy whose pond you fell into doing my best impression of grandfatherly advice, even though I'd rather not be thought of as old.
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Or he'll get the response he gets from Wilhelm. At first he merely blinks, the only sign of being caught ever so slightly off-guard by what Claude sees as an abrupt change from the politeness before. Then it's there a second later as Wilhelm clearly looks uncomfortable, and Claude studies him just to give him some time to recover before offering a snort of laughter. Easy enough to breeze right on by if that's what the other prefers based on looking like he's wishing the ground might swallow him whole at this point in time, and to put all the usual charm back into play (unknowingly) with or without Sannleikr's help. ]
Wilhelm. I just told you I used to hear some pretty terrible things so believe me, being told I talk too much? That's not only true, but so far down on the list of the worst things I've been told that it doesn't even rank.
[ Now he tilts his head, considering. With everything that's been going on, attitudes being different hadn't been something he'd mentally kept on the list of everything going wrong. Sure, Sylvain's mood hasn't been great and Petra's is understandably also varied, but is it one more to add to the list? Who even knows. ]
Regardless, you don't have to listen to me. For all you know I'm just some guy whose pond you fell into doing my best impression of grandfatherly advice, even though I'd rather not be thought of as old.