[ To say he's on-edge... would be putting it lightly. It isn't even the most harrowing imprisonment he's suffered, but it's different when Cornelia put him a room and trapped him there with obligations rather than chains. It was being caught and captured before he even had a mind to resist, made powerless, and what's worst—what he can't forgive—is how few of the others there seemed to actually deserve it.
He's buzzing with agitation, an old paranoia working him up into an unnecessary level of alertness, even if he should be clear now that he's made it free of the gallows.
Instead, when someone surprises him by rounding the corner ahead of him, he more or less shoves them against the wall of a building, draped in shadow, arm pressed to their throat. There's a fierce gleam in his eye before—it fizzles into confusion. ]
claude ; post-jail
He's buzzing with agitation, an old paranoia working him up into an unnecessary level of alertness, even if he should be clear now that he's made it free of the gallows.
Instead, when someone surprises him by rounding the corner ahead of him, he more or less shoves them against the wall of a building, draped in shadow, arm pressed to their throat. There's a fierce gleam in his eye before—it fizzles into confusion. ]
—Claude?