[ Sigh. Oh well, it's not like he expected any other answer from her. But it is a reminder that he's going to have to make up for plenty of past mistakes in front of her. ]

Who could follow them when they were talking about all those strange machines? They gave you one too, didn't they? The cere...vices?

[ He'll pull his out from underneath his cloak and regard it with as much suspicion and contempt as a particularly dangerous grimoire. ] Apparently, it does a lot of things. I don't understand the first thing about it, though.