[ The eyebrow quirk gets a faint smile from him, if only because Claude knows he's really selling where he's leading into getting to the actual conversation topic. Having too many winding paths to cross through first is a habit too engrained for him to entirely avoid it unless it's something dire.

He's pretty sure this doesn't completely qualify which is why he shrugs one shoulder rather uselessly as an initial response to yet another valid question. ]

I'll never say no to some tea since maybe that'd be best to start with and we can always break into the wine later, depending on your feelings on staying. In Abraxas, I mean.

[ As he absently scans his surroundings - yet another unbreakable habit - his gaze lands on the leosylph looking at him with a level of skepticism he's well used to from the two residing in the loft and he crouches down to offer a hand out for investigation to Coram. ]