[Claude frowns, but he's not surprised that she laughs. If anything, he expected that kind of reaction.] This Oracle is just one of many... if by some miracle we survive all this. That being the case, we still have plenty of opportunities to claim the rest. Even if we don't, I'm working on a second plan to make things turn up in our favour.

[The details of which he won't bore Sothis with. Not because he thinks she'll pass that on to Byleth, when he'd rather keep his ideas quiet for now. Instead, he simply assumes she isn't interested in much more than self-preservation at this point, as she seems to indicate.]

My goals already hung by a thread of hope even before all this happened. Delusional or not, I won't give up on it. Most humans are like that... We all need something to work toward.