So... [Over his shoulder to Lightning] Time Compression kind of... can... pull different versions of a person. If you check your roster you'll see a couple of students with the same name, they're the same person but... not.

I think what you're seeing is probably a better example of this than any way I could tell you about it.

[He exhales, trying hard not to make it sound like a sigh. Even now he's still not trying to irritate Claire, as futile as THAT is. He looks back to the antagonistic Instructor.]

This is the Claire 'Lightning' Farron I know.

[He's tense, expecting something to go wrong. Claire will probably interpret that as the two of them planning to jump her, but he can't do a thing about her perceptions.]