Surely you know that's as good as saying yes in not so many words.
[ Of course he does, Claude thinks, because Sylvain's used one of the many methods that he himself uses to sidestep something. That's the point of not having to say yes at all. The confirmation of being right doesn't offer Claude any comfort. It means the weight of something is sitting heavy on the other's shoulders and that there's a possibility those vivid dreams he'd done his best to gloss over are back.
A possibility which means also closer to being true as he watches Sylvain get another drink then looks at his own mostly empty glass. All the better to tip the last of it back to finish it off to refill it once the other's done in case they're about to be here for a while. ]
You wanna talk about it at all?
[ Probably not since Claude knows he wouldn't himself, but. The offer still stands. ]
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[ Of course he does, Claude thinks, because Sylvain's used one of the many methods that he himself uses to sidestep something. That's the point of not having to say yes at all. The confirmation of being right doesn't offer Claude any comfort. It means the weight of something is sitting heavy on the other's shoulders and that there's a possibility those vivid dreams he'd done his best to gloss over are back.
A possibility which means also closer to being true as he watches Sylvain get another drink then looks at his own mostly empty glass. All the better to tip the last of it back to finish it off to refill it once the other's done in case they're about to be here for a while. ]
You wanna talk about it at all?
[ Probably not since Claude knows he wouldn't himself, but. The offer still stands. ]