Before I take your hand, can I ask some questions?

[It sound like they met again after the monastery and things happened way past to what he knows. So Claude did look confused before returning to a stern expression.]

The last I saw you was when you started the war and destroyed Garreg Mach. Maybe time advanced on without me or I hit my head somewhere, but... What happened, Edelgard? What do you know?

[He wants to hear her story before he could make a proper decision.]