I still need to rest a bit, sorry. If I'm holding you back, you're welcome to go on ahead and explore the area.

[The dragon's no doubt much stronger than a scrawny teenager like him and therefore quicker to recover, so he won't take it personally, should they split up for a while.

Regardless, they're later both taken by Pleroma to the lodestone cavern (and Claude manages to get a set of clothes to change into!) when he's later reunited with the black dragon. He dashes over, waving.]

Hey! So this is where you disappeared to.