"Such a bright young lad thou art." He leads Lan Zhan down the path that naturally follows, that he spent many days with Magnus pacing back and forth and arguing which path naturally followed -- thankfully, Claudius's rambling explanations fell under 'infodumping' and not prescriptive control. At the end of the day, perhaps nothing informed Claudius's perspective except a vague sense of rightness, but it does feel right. The principles of feng shui alone will lead them into the inner garden. "When I was thy age, I wanted to be a proper gentleman more than anything -- but I'd idealized gentlemanliness as a denial of one's own, sinful nature. 'Tis not so with bamboo. Bamboo will grow where'er nature wills it. To deny its growth ... is to hide a light within a bushel, using one our holy text's examples. Better to let it shine."