Lan Wangji listens to this politely, lightly baffled behind that exterior. Crowley? A confidante? It's only very recently that the two of them have managed to string together a single intelligible interaction, and not without considerable effort.

Well, he knows that Claudius likes stories. When it comes to Crowley, he's no shortage of those. "On our first meeting, I presumed him possessed by an evil spirit. I attempted to cleanse him with my qin."