[ Configurable magic. One question of his is answered, and several more replace it as Claude turns his gaze back to the orb and considers it now with this new context and what he knows of the magic most familiar to him. ]

Configurable in the sense that you have to provide it with instructions rather than know how to operate it, or both?

[ Whether there's actually a distinction to be made: it feels like there is even if it's not something Claude can put a finger upon exactly just yet, what with this being something demonstrably beyond Fodlan's offerings. Possibly even Cadens, if he had to guess, since it makes sense to him yet again why this would be kept under lock and key. It's that thought which causes him to first look at some of the notes nearby for a very quick skim and then back at the other man with curiosity far less disguised this time around, not that it hasn't likely been apparent already. ]

I take it you've done some testing with it to see what all it can do so far.

[ And he would really like to know what some of them are, if Viktor's willing to share. ]