[ The shrug is - not ideal, though this time Claude doesn't go with his first reaction, instead willing himself to wait it out and be a bit more careful as usual. None is exactly what he would've guessed and it's not reassuring in terms of what the bigger picture would require. Not even with that rather illuminating reveal that follows it; he studies Sylvain for a long moment afterwards. It's not lost on him that now's a time to choose his words with even more deliberation than usual. A given, really, but now if he selects an incorrect one who knows what the consequence will be? ]

I don't doubt that, but this isn't 'playing a role' to get out of practice at the training grounds that we're talking about here. This is considerably different.

[ Where to start? There aren't a lot of ways he can explain what he'd actually like to without giving too much away and that won't help anything either. That's something he can think a bit more about first because there's something more important to address in there. ]

You realize that about the only way they'd trust us is if we joined the military, right? I don't want information badly enough to consider doing that, and you shouldn't either.