[Claude doesn't quite choke, but it's a near thing. He's...pretty sure Byleth means that totally innocently, but also, what a way to word it! And, y'know, at the same time...with Byleth, you never really know. The inexplicable, even impossible, are never as out of reach as one might think when it comes to Byleth, and somehow Claude feels that the chance of Byleth actually propositioning him for sex out of nowhere is a non-zero one.]

I, uh, think that one might be related to you barely even smiling back when you first arrived at Garreg Mach. Which itself might've been tied to your Crest? If it suppressed your body functions, like it seemed to have done with the Teach that was here before you, then maybe it suppressed your emotional responses as well. In which case, you being here where your Crest doesn't work...you might be feeling things a lot more intensely than you used to, and you're still adjusting to that. I mean, everybody experiences some emotions more strongly than others sometimes, but...I can't say I've ever felt something quite like what you're describing.

And listen, not for nothing, but I've gotta ask - you do mean actual sleeping, right? The wording's a little...