[He leans against a cavernous root, and for once, he's not feigning a smile or good humour. Maybe she'd be grateful for that, if the circumstances were otherwise, he thinks grimly.]
I wanted to see how you were doing. [He's worried about her, truthfully, which he can't do much to hide via communion, being amplified between them as loudly as it is now. He just won't say it outright, lest he be accused of somehow pitying her or thinking of her as weak. He looks across at her, meeting Hayame's eye.] And... I want you to know that, whatever happens, I'm on your side.
[Does a statement like that even mean anything when the world is about to end? Perhaps -- at least, Claude thinks so -- it means more because it could all end at any moment.]
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I wanted to see how you were doing. [He's worried about her, truthfully, which he can't do much to hide via communion, being amplified between them as loudly as it is now. He just won't say it outright, lest he be accused of somehow pitying her or thinking of her as weak. He looks across at her, meeting Hayame's eye.] And... I want you to know that, whatever happens, I'm on your side.
[Does a statement like that even mean anything when the world is about to end? Perhaps -- at least, Claude thinks so -- it means more because it could all end at any moment.]