[ Coram chirrups, wings fluttering, and leans closer to sniff.

Ciri watches them, but since Claude isn't looking, he might miss the flash of surprise across her face. So that's what he wanted to talk about? Why the roundabout approach and the bribe? She didn't think it was a secret how she felt.

Though some might consider it controversial. ]

Many of the memories from our time stuck slumbering near the Singularity have faded, but if you remember our time together then enough, my feelings were based on something real. They haven't changed.

I hope there is a time when the Summoned can make a choice for themselves.