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[vrdantwind]

"Hey, this is Claude! Pretty sure I'm doing this correctly. You can leave me a message here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Talk to you soon~."

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[woofdad]

He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself before trying to explain. "I think he has the impression that, uh... keeping him up to date is just a formality, essentially, and that... his eventual agreement was seen as a foregone conclusion. It seems like he doesn't feel like he truly has a say in what goes on."

[vrdantwind]

Claude pauses, thinking. "This is about Zuke, isn't it?" he says after a moment. "About our giving him time to adjust to the idea. He thought that was us telling him he had to find a way to become okay with it in that timeframe, not that we thought he needed to regain some emotional stability after Sylvain's disappearance. I did think that was a large part - maybe the whole part - of why he was resisting the idea, and that he'd be less opposed to it when his emotional wounds weren't so fresh and he could stand the thought of things changing again, but that's not the same as me - or any of us - not caring if he had serious objections, or trying to enforce him changing his mind."

[woofdad]

Grant nods against Claude's shoulder, the movement slowed by exhaustion. "Mm-hm. I guess there was more to it than that. But we didn't ask."

[vrdantwind]

Claude sighs. "No, we didn't. But Felix doesn't make himself easy to ask things like that. Half the time he doesn't know for himself how he's feeling exactly, or how to explain it, and we have to guess or work it out for ourselves anyway. And pretty much all the time, he doesn't want to talk about it at all. And he was pricklier than ever after Sylvain left. I guess I can't really argue we did the right thing when it backfired, obviously...but we definitely did the thing that made the most sense. The thing we thought would upset Felix the least. Trying to figure out how he felt for ourselves, without having to hassle him for more information in talks he didn't want to have, and trying to accommodate for that."

He combs fingers through Grant's hair. "Do you ever sometimes feel like every possible option with Felix is wrong somehow?"