Maybe. If I'd known he'd been alive sooner...well, who knows if I'd have been able to get through to him, but I definitely would've done something.

[Claude hadn't been able to get through to him at Gronder Field, that's for sure. He doesn't know if this Lysithea knows about what happened there, and somehow he feels it may be best not to tell her. He's still sporting a fairly fresh scar from Dimitri's lance, after all...and Lysithea has a short temper.]

Well, now who's giving the high praise? I don't know what I've done to deserve that level of confidence from you, but I'm flattered. [He's not just saying that, either - to some degree, he really doesn't know. It sounds like the circumstances for Lysithea's version of events back home had been rather different from the ones he remembers, so it stands to reason that the things he did must have been different. Had the version of himself Lysithea had known been better than him? Worse? What choices had he made, presented with different situations? Claude wonders just how beneficial it might be to pry into the details...and if he could possibly hold back his curiosity, even if he concluded knowing might be detrimental.]

You know me, though. I'm not easy to surprise.