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Fair enough. Everyone keeps telling me this is a place for second chances. Motivations change for some people outside of their home world. And you're in a much better position than any rivals at this point.

[ Claude has allies and friends, Kyle included. ]

I wouldn't want anyone like that close to the Singularity.

It's been a year now and I haven't seen or heard of anyone from my world, but there's a man named Fikiri who would likely want me dead if he arrived. He cannot be trusted.

There is another man, John Toffler, though he might go by the name Jath'ibaye. If he were to ever arrive in the Free Cities, I would need to know immediately.

You and me both. What they accomplished in Fodlan was enough without being given the chance to alter other worlds with it.

[ Because that's easier to focus on than the talk of rivals, true as it might be - and that being a thought that's crossed his own mind. But it soon becomes clear he'd perhaps treated Kyle's question a bit too flippantly even while simultaneously meaning what he'd said, because there's trust in giving the names and the reasons behind them. That's not difficult to tell from one person averse to giving out too many details about themselves to another, and so Claude considers what he's told carefully and reads those names several times before they disappear to commit them to memory. ]

Noted. If I ever come across either of them or happen to hear or see their names, I'll find you first to let you know.

[ And though he didn't address it before: ]

But the same goes for you as well, you know. You wouldn't be alone in facing them if they show up.

[ There's a slightly longer pause before he continues. ]

I appreciate it. Fikiri would have abilities like me. He slipped through my grasp the last time we met because I wasn't prepared.

[ Kahlil hates Fikiri with an intensity he can't completely account for. It must have something to do with his other memory, but he doesn't pursue those answers. ]

Jath'ibaye
I should explain better. He wouldn't be a threat to anyone here. He is a good man. It's just important that I find him if he were to arrive.

[ The John he knew wouldn't hurt a soul. What Jath'ibaye will do to Kahlil if they meet again - he can't say, but this isn't something his friends here could help him with. ]

[ It's an interesting tidbit Kyle mentions, that Fikiri has the same abilities, and that slipping through the other's grasp. He has questions - because of course he does - but he's also reading this as something possibly discussed at a later time. Or when Kyle chooses to share it, which feels like an even more important extension of trust. ]

Doubly noted about Fikiri. And same for Jath'ibaye.

[ That last statement is a complicated one, if he had to guess, and especially given what Claude knows he'd say for that when applying it to someone else arriving here from Fodlan for who it would fit. ]

For what it's worth, there's multiple meanings to facing someone. Not all of them negative, [ because would that be a reunion? Or something else? Regardless - ] but the sentiment stands all the same. You still wouldn't haven't to do it alone, not unless that's what you want.

[ There is another little pause. ]

Thank you, Claude.

[ Even if it's something he must do alone, he's never had someone offer to stand with him until he arrived here. Or be given a choice. ]

Of course. But I'll expect to be paid in the nicest tea you can find should that come to pass, mind you.

[ A little levity's never a bad thing. Though that does, perhaps, come with the undercurrent of that's what friends are for behind it, especially considering that's what's actually meant. ]

[ It's not. He needs it, sometimes. ]

I'll bring a special blend from Borrel.

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