[ That gets his smile to grow wider as he leans forward more over the table with his voice a little lower. ]
Then maybe you'd better start paying even closer attention because I'm not that hard to figure out. But then again, neither are you.
[ A partial truth. Claude is complicated in an intentional attempt to keep people out, leave them confused with whatever's constantly shifting beneath the evenness he projects, or something in between. But that hasn't dissuaded Sylvain, has it? And so those traps Claude usually sets have gradually had less teeth and more distance between them in a tacit agreement of letting Sylvain closer if he chose to follow the chase, and here they are. As for the part that was some honesty: in all that time together from being here, in all those playful back-and-forths, he's figured out some less visible certainties about the man sitting across from him.
They'll have to wait since the server once again has excellent timing and he sits up to make space for the plates because there's a few of them. It's a good thing the portions here aren't overly generous so it'll be manageable enough. What's set before them includes a fish stew with the addition of hot peppers, some variety of roasted bird with a sauce Claude hadn't recognized the ingredients to, something else that'd vaguely resembled a promise of the dining hall's wild game pie and seems to have delivered - a quiet showcasing of some of what he's learned (or relearned) about the other.
Well, and then there's a vegetable stir fry slathered in cheese which might lean more towards his own interests. Can't let Sylvain have all the fun, after all. ]
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Then maybe you'd better start paying even closer attention because I'm not that hard to figure out. But then again, neither are you.
[ A partial truth. Claude is complicated in an intentional attempt to keep people out, leave them confused with whatever's constantly shifting beneath the evenness he projects, or something in between. But that hasn't dissuaded Sylvain, has it? And so those traps Claude usually sets have gradually had less teeth and more distance between them in a tacit agreement of letting Sylvain closer if he chose to follow the chase, and here they are. As for the part that was some honesty: in all that time together from being here, in all those playful back-and-forths, he's figured out some less visible certainties about the man sitting across from him.
They'll have to wait since the server once again has excellent timing and he sits up to make space for the plates because there's a few of them. It's a good thing the portions here aren't overly generous so it'll be manageable enough. What's set before them includes a fish stew with the addition of hot peppers, some variety of roasted bird with a sauce Claude hadn't recognized the ingredients to, something else that'd vaguely resembled a promise of the dining hall's wild game pie and seems to have delivered - a quiet showcasing of some of what he's learned (or relearned) about the other.
Well, and then there's a vegetable stir fry slathered in cheese which might lean more towards his own interests. Can't let Sylvain have all the fun, after all. ]
Alright, which one are we starting with first?