[Because of course it would be Claude. Claude is often and always on top of such things, and... Dimitri's gaze seems to grow distant for a moment. Was it not Claude, who fell apart so, inconsolable, at Sylavin's disappearance? Dimitri can still recall the way they'd clung to one another, been clinging to one another, for days, weeks...]
[...He should go check on Claude before he leaves. Should leave someone with him, someone like - ]
[There's a squeak, a weight on his leg, and Dimitri looks down - away from the Gear's camera, away from the things he's trying to pack up. There's Gremlin, staring at him intently, and surrounded by the Raticate mischief. And Jackie Mary Ann, of course.]
[Right. Right. He has to stay in the present.]
...I will be fine, Sylvain. [Because that's definitely what he demonstrated just now, as he went off into his head.] I... I have much to make up for you, so I cannot be selfish once again...
[He can't get distracted by himself, by his own feelings. He can't do that to them all again. So he has to take care of Claude, and Sylvain, and...]
...Since Claude has mentioned you were here before, then, I could bring back a companion you knew here. Tarasque. Perhaps she and your companion, the Ponyta colt, may get on well.
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[Because of course it would be Claude. Claude is often and always on top of such things, and... Dimitri's gaze seems to grow distant for a moment. Was it not Claude, who fell apart so, inconsolable, at Sylavin's disappearance? Dimitri can still recall the way they'd clung to one another, been clinging to one another, for days, weeks...]
[...He should go check on Claude before he leaves. Should leave someone with him, someone like - ]
[There's a squeak, a weight on his leg, and Dimitri looks down - away from the Gear's camera, away from the things he's trying to pack up. There's Gremlin, staring at him intently, and surrounded by the Raticate mischief. And Jackie Mary Ann, of course.]
[Right. Right. He has to stay in the present.]
...I will be fine, Sylvain. [Because that's definitely what he demonstrated just now, as he went off into his head.] I... I have much to make up for you, so I cannot be selfish once again...
[He can't get distracted by himself, by his own feelings. He can't do that to them all again. So he has to take care of Claude, and Sylvain, and...]
...Since Claude has mentioned you were here before, then, I could bring back a companion you knew here. Tarasque. Perhaps she and your companion, the Ponyta colt, may get on well.