[ The first half of that just gets a wave of his free hand as if to say, can you believe that? Somewhere across space and time Lysithea is rolling her eyes as if she can just sense this is happening, Claude's positive.
Some part of him half-expected Sylvain to sidestep the rest of what was said and to go on about Lysithea or their other classmates, if only because Claude knows he would've been tempted to do the same than acknowledge something else. The hand slipped back into his is enough of a sign that won't be the case as the other man resettles their hands into a more comfortable grasp and further tangled together, and he traces a calloused thumb over what skin he can reach. ]
You're right about that, whether it's home or here.
[ Here probably goes unspoken, unnecessary of a qualifier as it is and the same for mentioning home even if they're looping around it in different ways. Fodlan doesn't matter here - something Claude tries to remind himself of more and more with varying degrees of success when it comes to remembering that while sitting next to someone from Fodlan.
That's too much of a tangled mess to dive into or invite into the room more than it has been, so back to something safer it is in making the same move he'd half-expected Sylvain to make earlier. ]
Speaking of that, I think you've forever shifted my perspective on your cooking skills thanks to tonight and even from what I already knew they were before. Have I mentioned already now you've just made it so I expect this more often? If not, consider this your warning.
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Some part of him half-expected Sylvain to sidestep the rest of what was said and to go on about Lysithea or their other classmates, if only because Claude knows he would've been tempted to do the same than acknowledge something else. The hand slipped back into his is enough of a sign that won't be the case as the other man resettles their hands into a more comfortable grasp and further tangled together, and he traces a calloused thumb over what skin he can reach. ]
You're right about that, whether it's home or here.
[ Here probably goes unspoken, unnecessary of a qualifier as it is and the same for mentioning home even if they're looping around it in different ways. Fodlan doesn't matter here - something Claude tries to remind himself of more and more with varying degrees of success when it comes to remembering that while sitting next to someone from Fodlan.
That's too much of a tangled mess to dive into or invite into the room more than it has been, so back to something safer it is in making the same move he'd half-expected Sylvain to make earlier. ]
Speaking of that, I think you've forever shifted my perspective on your cooking skills thanks to tonight and even from what I already knew they were before. Have I mentioned already now you've just made it so I expect this more often? If not, consider this your warning.