[ He'd gone back to spinning his glass in place slowly to give himself a way to fidget, but at Sylvain's first question that he hears almost as a proclamation of sorts, Claude goes rather still and turns to stare at the other man. ]

Are you saying the Singularity changed something about what we each know?

[ Did he hear that right? It would be a stunningly simple solution to narrow down to one starting point to spiral out from, one Claude hadn't even considered himself, and even if it'd also open more and more complications immediately following it. But - maybe it's not the Singularity, magic or otherwise. He thinks back to his conversation with Geralt about the process of summoning those here from other worlds, and though it'd been short it was every bit as illuminating as this. ]

I've spoken to a few people who have been here for a year or longer. One of them told me at first, when it was just Thorne summoning, they knew enough about who they wanted to call here to know if they'd made a mistake by bringing someone else instead. I should say that Thorne considered it a mistake, but it stands to reason that the Free Cities know what they're doing too by now if they learned from Thorne's notes.

And that would mean they might know about our... differences in memory, for lack of a better term, or that they know about Teach.

[ And that - as far as Claude's concerned - if Sylvain's right, is far more worrisome. ]