[ She makes a good point: there's much to figure out after first arriving here that other options might as well be far out on the horizon and Cadens a million miles away. It's only been a couple months so he still remembers that confusion well even in between doing what he could to absorb as much as possible before leaving.
As he picks up his glass to take a drink, Claude surveys Petra over it while she speaks. That she doesn't trust what the military leaders have told them - that's promising and what he would've hoped for. By the time he sets his drink down, it's with a small crease in his brow as he considers his words. ]
My advice would be to leave here if you don't plan on joining them. [ His words are quieter now to avoid being overheard, and said with a brief glance in the direction of some guards dining a few tables away. There's enough noise that it's unlikely his voice stands out, but Claude leans forward to close the distance all the same. ] They'll support you as long as you stay. That'll end if you leave, but there's an inn in Cadens where most of the Summoned end up. The woman who runs it, Mag, will rent a room to you in exchange for helping out around it. Nothing intense, just mostly like we used to do at Garreg Mach, and there's other jobs you can pick up if you'd rather take those on after you're settled.
[ None of that is any particular reason to be secretive - Claude's no under any illusions that the Free Cities know exactly where any of them are at any time in Cadens - but the next part: ]
Almost everyone that I've met here or in Cadens: they all left the outpost immediately. There's only a couple others that I know of that support anything to do with the war, and everyone else would rather... not. No matter what you guys are told out here, you can leave at any point you want to. You can even take the wagon in one day and just not come back, which is what I did.
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As he picks up his glass to take a drink, Claude surveys Petra over it while she speaks. That she doesn't trust what the military leaders have told them - that's promising and what he would've hoped for. By the time he sets his drink down, it's with a small crease in his brow as he considers his words. ]
My advice would be to leave here if you don't plan on joining them. [ His words are quieter now to avoid being overheard, and said with a brief glance in the direction of some guards dining a few tables away. There's enough noise that it's unlikely his voice stands out, but Claude leans forward to close the distance all the same. ] They'll support you as long as you stay. That'll end if you leave, but there's an inn in Cadens where most of the Summoned end up. The woman who runs it, Mag, will rent a room to you in exchange for helping out around it. Nothing intense, just mostly like we used to do at Garreg Mach, and there's other jobs you can pick up if you'd rather take those on after you're settled.
[ None of that is any particular reason to be secretive - Claude's no under any illusions that the Free Cities know exactly where any of them are at any time in Cadens - but the next part: ]
Almost everyone that I've met here or in Cadens: they all left the outpost immediately. There's only a couple others that I know of that support anything to do with the war, and everyone else would rather... not. No matter what you guys are told out here, you can leave at any point you want to. You can even take the wagon in one day and just not come back, which is what I did.