Claude & Marianne C

Claude
...

Marianne
Um...

Claude
Hmm...

Marianne
Um, Claude?

Claude
Hm? Oh, Marianne! Have the gods taken pity on my lost soul and revealed a sign to me?

Marianne
...

Claude
I've been researching the 10 Elites of Fódlan, but I can't tell fact from fiction...

Claude
Anyhow, what can I help you with?

Marianne
Well, um... I found this pendant, and I think it's yours.

Claude
Ah, right you are. Honestly, I'd resigned myself to never seeing it again.

Claude
Thanks for returning it to me, Marianne. You saved my tail.

Marianne
Please, it was nothing. I should be—

Claude
No, I think that's enough researching for today. Why don't you join me for a nice chat?

Marianne
I just came to deliver the pendant.

Claude
Sounds awfully lonely to only talk to those whom you have business with. Do you really dislike talking to people that much?

Marianne
It's just...I never know what to say. I'm sorry.

Claude
No need to apologize. We'll figure it out as we go. Tell me, are you like this with your father too?

Claude
Within the Alliance, Margrave Edmund is prone to debate. With a father like that, I would have thought...

Marianne
Margrave Edmund is my adoptive father.

Claude
Oh, is he? I didn't know. Where were you born?

Marianne
That is none of your concern.

Marianne
I, um, I really must be going.

Claude
She's hiding something, that much is clear.

Claude
But that just makes me all the more desperate to know her secrets!