[ For all his many calculations about what it is Felix might say in response, somehow - somehow this isn't one of them. As they step through the entrance to one of Cadens' parks scattered around, now Claude turns to look at the other man next to him with attention far sharper than it'd been before beneath that genial mask. ]
What do you mean, vanished after Gronder? And who's the 'we' in that?
[ Because he knows what that'd meant when he'd tried to frame it as such to Sylvain before telling him the truth of what'd happened to all the Blue Lions he'd once known best. Including Felix, he's reminded again, and then thinks of what the Horizon had brought him when he'd asked for warm clothing when being caught in the blizzard. Some piece of that had been Felix's once.
Then again, Petra had once told him he'd 'vanished' as well and meant it in a different sense. Better to wait even if that he doesn't keep talking absolutely betrays keen interest in whatever it is Felix is about to tell him - even if it differs from what other possibilities already spoken about months ago. ]
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What do you mean, vanished after Gronder? And who's the 'we' in that?
[ Because he knows what that'd meant when he'd tried to frame it as such to Sylvain before telling him the truth of what'd happened to all the Blue Lions he'd once known best. Including Felix, he's reminded again, and then thinks of what the Horizon had brought him when he'd asked for warm clothing when being caught in the blizzard. Some piece of that had been Felix's once.
Then again, Petra had once told him he'd 'vanished' as well and meant it in a different sense. Better to wait even if that he doesn't keep talking absolutely betrays keen interest in whatever it is Felix is about to tell him - even if it differs from what other possibilities already spoken about months ago. ]