[He doesn't move to get any closer, but he doesn't have any problems with her being this close either. He listens to her without interrupting. And when she's done, he thinks he understands, at least a bit better.
Of course, his immediate thought is to run over everyone in the academy to try to remember which of them could have the disease and who could possibly be hiding it. It's likely she's taken with someone from the Golden Deer... Lorenz is entirely too stupid to keep his mouth shut, so it can't be him. Claude? Claude. Probably. He makes the most sense. If someone were to be hiding their condition, it would be him.
After all, he can't come up with anyone else who is openly displaying symptoms right now.]
I see. I... can see where that would be very difficult.
[The hesitation is... certainly something, isn't it. He tries to recover from it.]
Are you certain he doesn't feel that way for you?
[It's not a pointed question at all, it's just curious. He doesn't know Claude as a person very well - or at all, really. He has no idea who Claude could be interested in, but why wouldn't it be Marianne? She's a gentle, kind girl who has trouble expressing herself, but she always looks out for those around her and cares so deeply...
Ah. He really does need to stop thinking like that...]
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Of course, his immediate thought is to run over everyone in the academy to try to remember which of them could have the disease and who could possibly be hiding it. It's likely she's taken with someone from the Golden Deer... Lorenz is entirely too stupid to keep his mouth shut, so it can't be him. Claude? Claude. Probably. He makes the most sense. If someone were to be hiding their condition, it would be him.
After all, he can't come up with anyone else who is openly displaying symptoms right now.]
I see. I... can see where that would be very difficult.
[The hesitation is... certainly something, isn't it. He tries to recover from it.]
Are you certain he doesn't feel that way for you?
[It's not a pointed question at all, it's just curious. He doesn't know Claude as a person very well - or at all, really. He has no idea who Claude could be interested in, but why wouldn't it be Marianne? She's a gentle, kind girl who has trouble expressing herself, but she always looks out for those around her and cares so deeply...
Ah. He really does need to stop thinking like that...]