[ Ange may not be answering him, but at least she's not fighting him either, Claude thinks. There are people back home who would cuss him out for proposing such a thing, calling him craven, accusing him of thinking them craven, staunch in their belief that there is no nobler fate than dying with a sword in your hand and a spike through your belly.
Claude quite disagrees, which is why he intends to get the hell out of here as soon as it seems like an unwinnable fight, with Ange tucked underneath his arm if he has to. Heaven knows she's small enough. So he forges ahead, breath shallow, trying to keep as quiet as possible as they creep forward, try to see if there's some horrible thing lying in wait. ]
Okay, [ he breathes. ] So the magic gets stronger here. Maybe this magic was counteracting your own -- some sort of Silence spell. [ He looks at the wall he's touching, frowning as he senses nothing of his own. He only ever scraped by in his magic classes; these days, he regrets that negligence more and more.
He balls his hand into a fist and punches the wall where the magic is coming from, hard enough that for a particularly shallow, delicate wall, his hand would go clean through. ]
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Claude quite disagrees, which is why he intends to get the hell out of here as soon as it seems like an unwinnable fight, with Ange tucked underneath his arm if he has to. Heaven knows she's small enough. So he forges ahead, breath shallow, trying to keep as quiet as possible as they creep forward, try to see if there's some horrible thing lying in wait. ]
Okay, [ he breathes. ] So the magic gets stronger here. Maybe this magic was counteracting your own -- some sort of Silence spell. [ He looks at the wall he's touching, frowning as he senses nothing of his own. He only ever scraped by in his magic classes; these days, he regrets that negligence more and more.
He balls his hand into a fist and punches the wall where the magic is coming from, hard enough that for a particularly shallow, delicate wall, his hand would go clean through. ]