[ As Coram ventures forth bravely to investigate his hand, Claude holds still throughout the sniffing. There's maybe the barest of grins on his face - surely that's a safe movement which won't be too frightening or so he hopes.

Before he can offer some reassuring words to the leosylph to hopefully improve whatever assessment is being made, Ciri's answer comes. And she's right: he does remember. ]

I knew what you felt then, though... [ He trails off for a second, then shrugs one shoulder. He'll risk offending Coram first with that sudden movement and then another as he stands back up. ] Well. I also know what I felt then when I'd forgotten anything and everything about home. I didn't know if that'd shifted considering for me, after we came back? I wasn't sure at all about staying even though I had been before.

[ Though almost as soon as those words are out of his mouth, a humorless smile crosses Claude's face before he adds, ] Though that'd mean giving up everything here, which doesn't feel like much of a choice at all.