[ The pause is noted - a rightful pause, Claude thinks, considering Kyle must almost certainly be weighing up whether he believes the sincere offer to not tell anyone else anything about this. He'd be doing the same if the tables were turned, he knows that much, so when Kyle volunteers that it requires dual gates connected to each other he nods. Not unlike a warp tile, of sorts, except that rather than being blasted across a room it would send someone to somewhere else potentially like Abraxas.
After that there's a shift, a metaphorical door being shut with only the tiniest indication of it, but Claude's sat through enough negotiations to recognize what it looks like. Patience is a factor here, a skill he'd developed long ago first out of necessity and then as another tool, and he can wait as long as needed. The mention of Tony Stark is something to consider in the meantime since he remembers small bits of the conversation here and there. Something he should've paid more attention to with the benefit of hindsight now, Claude thinks. ]
What stood out about where I was summoned? [ That gets a furrowed brow of concentration as he tries to recall the room, and to his surprise some of the smaller, finer details of it are fading from his memory much faster than he would've guessed it would for the sheer strangeness of it all. There's more he's still grasping at from that deeply confusing memory, but he can start with the basics of what he recalls. ] I remember being pulled out of water with no clothes on, which seems to be an unfortunately shared experience for all of us in Cadens. The prime minister, Marlo, was there, but so were... a lot of other people in uniforms as if they'd all been waiting for some time. She seemed to anticipate we might be upset but didn't want to answer questions then.
But now that I'm thinking about it, there was something like a card on a stand nearby. It had, [ with a couple fingers tapped against the Wheel of Fortune arcana emblazoned on his shirt shoulder above his heart, ] something like this on it, but whether it was this symbol precisely I can't say for sure. Does any of this resemble your arrival?
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After that there's a shift, a metaphorical door being shut with only the tiniest indication of it, but Claude's sat through enough negotiations to recognize what it looks like. Patience is a factor here, a skill he'd developed long ago first out of necessity and then as another tool, and he can wait as long as needed. The mention of Tony Stark is something to consider in the meantime since he remembers small bits of the conversation here and there. Something he should've paid more attention to with the benefit of hindsight now, Claude thinks. ]
What stood out about where I was summoned? [ That gets a furrowed brow of concentration as he tries to recall the room, and to his surprise some of the smaller, finer details of it are fading from his memory much faster than he would've guessed it would for the sheer strangeness of it all. There's more he's still grasping at from that deeply confusing memory, but he can start with the basics of what he recalls. ] I remember being pulled out of water with no clothes on, which seems to be an unfortunately shared experience for all of us in Cadens. The prime minister, Marlo, was there, but so were... a lot of other people in uniforms as if they'd all been waiting for some time. She seemed to anticipate we might be upset but didn't want to answer questions then.
But now that I'm thinking about it, there was something like a card on a stand nearby. It had, [ with a couple fingers tapped against the Wheel of Fortune arcana emblazoned on his shirt shoulder above his heart, ] something like this on it, but whether it was this symbol precisely I can't say for sure. Does any of this resemble your arrival?