Strange, I've never seen anyone else announce themselves every time they pass through a gate. Seems a bit much to me. [Claude is utterly delighted to have provoked an expletive from him at all, a lack of crudeness aside. He's getting the hang of this place-- this may or may not be the Lorenz he knows, but the tone of this banter is familiar enough.

He chuckles, looking in to the stables as he approaches. Well, that explains why the horses are roaming freely.] I can't argue those points. It was styled. [He casually shifts out of the path of a wandering firefly. None of that, thanks.

Should he go ahead and say he's recently arrived here, and isn't one of the other Claudes that are somewhere about that Lorenz has likely already spoken to? ...nah.]