They share the same thought about the clarification in wording: the end result is likely to be the same regardless of the path in getting there, and even more likely when those questioning are looking for what they want to hear and nothing else. That's even before accounting for this being an on going process. It must be the same in Cadens then, surely.

Something that should've registered with Claude a little more firmly than it is now considering the interviewer had mentioned follow up and the filing of the report. Something which makes him considerably more concerned for his friends near him, and one in particular in Thorne. Nothing to do about that now, though.

The onslaught of books is deeply exciting, and for once Claude doesn't bother to disguise his reaction as anything but. A particularly age weathered tome is the first one he picks up, eager to dive into it post-haste. But then what Istredd said about the magic he knows clicks in Claude's mind, and he looks up from the page he'd turned to with a raised brow.

"Your magic can't be learned at all if you don't have that connection? That's considerably different from Fodlan." Here he thought he'd been kidding about Istredd's version of Warp, and yet it seems to be the truth after all. "Magic where I'm from is often learned in academies. It requires studying and some talent for it, of course, and because there's so much to it people often specialize in areas rather than the entirety. That also helps if you're a questionable magic student like me since I never picked up anything besides wind magic."

He means to start paging through the book, and yet - one more question lingers in his mind. "Is the connection you mentioned anything like what we experience with the Singularity here? Where it seems to grant gifts at random?"