[ Ah - Kyle would ask, wouldn't he? That's purely his own fault for putting it out there, phrasing it the way he had. It's the exact kind of loose end tapering off into nothing Claude would pounce on himself if the tables were turned.

Still. There's a long moment where he looks at his tea expressionlessly with any feelings on that well-concealed and hidden away, turning over how to pare down that fortune into something... something less what he knew it to be. ]

At first Lady Elin didn't say much. Seemed like she was just thinking with her eyes closed more than anything else, and it was a lot less over the top than some of the other fortune tellers I'd been to before. Not all of them are like that so it was nice that was the case here. [ This is the least subtle stalling of all time. ] Anyway, she told me I hold a tie to wrongs that were never righted. She's not wrong.

[ There's a lot of those wrongs, enough that this sentence could easily apply to some of the ones he's told Kyle about in bits and pieces, except that there's another half to it he's purposefully withholding and which provides greater context.

Now Claude looks up with that carefully crafted smile as a mask set back into place and shrugs like they're discussing something unremarkable. ]

Something I was on the path to correcting before I arrived here, so it'll have to wait a while longer. If she ever returns which it sounds like might happen what with it not being your time yet, I'll be curious to find if yours holds any weight.