[ Somehow - for some reason - that question isn't what he expected. It's reasonable (and something he's considered himself, when it was just him here, and when being alone hadn't made it viable) but for once Claude goes with his immediate reaction and his gaze is back on Sylvain in an instant. ]

Close enough for it to be a bad idea for, oh, about a hundred reasons, and that's assuming anyone's willing to tell us anything or where to find it even if it did work. [ Though he's careful to keep his expression neutral, the tone's a couple degrees cooler than anything ever directed towards Sylvain before though he's struggling to name exactly what feeling's behind that besides wariness of the Free Cities. Since there is something else, but that's not important. Maybe. ] Other Summoned have disappeared and no one seems to know how, or why, or where they went. I'm not particularly eager for anyone else to become one of them.

[ It's less that 'surveillance on the government is a bad idea' since really, it isn't; it's more about that whole not disappearing thing and maybe, if one reads between the lines, less directed at himself. Is he telling on himself again? Probably. Too late to take it back now. ]