[ Claude's going to take that as an invitation to do what he'd said, even if Sylvain hadn't meant it that way, and there's already another entry in the ongoing catalogue of his thoughts to add spices to his next round of wandering through the markets in search of items of interest. Maybe there's something he could do with that for Sylvain, and he considers it while taking the last bite of pheasant on his plate.

Scheming about that in depth will have to wait until later when a half-smile crosses his face a second later at the help Mags offered Sylvain and how it'd all turned out - from the sound of it - and Claude takes another forkful of food in time for it to muffle a laugh from him until he finishes it. ]

I suppose I'll forgive you going around my merchants this time since it was for a surprise, but we can definitely ask them to look for certain things if you want ingredients or some new cookware. One of them makes trips to Libertas fairly often since they're opening a shop over there, so they might have some extra places to look around.

[ The same goes for tea ingredients, Claude realizes a second later while finishing what's on his plate and then eyes the remaining serving bowls in a small debate with himself whether it'd be better to leave those for the leftovers he mentioned before or keep indulging. Or indulging in the tea - many choices to consider here. ]

I'm not sure I want to make a trip to Thorne to find out for ourselves, [ dryly, ] but maybe we can convince someone to smuggle some of it over to us on a Nocwich weekend to see for ourselves. Or, [ because he's not going to miss a chance to nudge Sylvain towards something either, ] we can repurpose it into your teas since that'd mean all the more experimenting.