Claudius can imagine the skill it must take from both dancers, individually and together, to move as one beast in one costume. He smiles at the thought. For the second time, he starts to think that if a way ever opens out of the mansion, he'd like to travel to other worlds than his own. "A wedding should have some recognition from close family and well-wishers, even if it's an elopement," he says teasingly. "They all wished you well, I trust? You mentioned having a brother." Suddenly, achingly, Claudius wants to know whether Lan Wangji's brother was the sort of man to wish him well.