YES, YES HE DOES want to be Wylan's partner for this and it's time for them to team up together again!! Maybe they can mess around on something in the alchemy lab and see what happens and whether they create something Disastrous or not? Also I forgot to add this before, but if we want to handwave that Wylan's stopped by to Claude's makeshift lab at the loft before with all the plants and vaguely suspicious uses for them, we could add an element of that in here too!