As the nurse came to escort Claude to his room, he had to fight really hard to not look like a kid who had managed to steal some cookies from the cookie jar. That wasn't too hard the minute he hard the Head Doctor say something about giving patients medicine, though. That put a damper on his mood, especially when he remembered how he felt the last time anyone in Landel's Institute had given him an injection against his will.

He sure as hell hoped that it was just an empty show of normalcy instead of a repeat of that whole fiasco. In this place, though? Claude knew better than to hold his breath.

More than anything, he just wanted his friends to be okay.

Still, now wasn't the time to lose his nerve or get distracted. When his nurse finally left him on his own, Claude wasted no time digging into his meal despite his lingering nausea, hoping to get a little bit of food into him before he tried what he wanted to do.