Jigano waited for Remi to speak, the admission of not having magic before arriving on Caido a sharp reminder of how the bard had lost his magic, but he pushed it down again. It was a loss he regretted, but was learning to accept in exchange for a chance to start over... except Ludo... no. Not now.
Not when the alchemist was saying such curious things. "A... lobster?" he repeated, utterly bemused and a bit bewildered. "Now there's a story I'd love to hear..." He'd seen one living thing turned into another on his world - usually enemies that Oni had turned into squirrels or newts - but never something inanimate turned into an animal. As if he'd needed further proof at how bizarre Caido could be! Considering what they'd just been attacked by... He suppressed a shiver, instead making a few notes in the margins of his map about what Remi had created. "All useful," he agreed. "That sounds like an amazing ability indeed but...? He waited curiously through the young mage's hesitation, trying to figure out where he was going.
He frowned at the implication - or rather, hurried reassurance - that Sam shared characteristics of a machine, but at the mention of Isla's Ascension he nodded slowly. What she had told him had created some interesting parallels with the androids in the Silvermount. Though, those had lacked emotions which Isla and Sam both had, as human as any other, and had very much not been drinkers of blood - or anything else.
Rather than respond immediately, Jigano took his time to think, chewing his lip as he split his attention between the maze and the puzzle Remi had posed. "What... sort of patch?" he asked slowly at last. The difficulty was in imagining what it would look like and how it would attach. Interface? Though despite being told that his Ascended friends lacked blood and relied on a mysterious 'fluid,' and that Isla's sight had been replaced - upgraded? - by the Voice he'd seen no sign of wires or gears or any of the things he associated with machines.
Not when the alchemist was saying such curious things. "A... lobster?" he repeated, utterly bemused and a bit bewildered. "Now there's a story I'd love to hear..." He'd seen one living thing turned into another on his world - usually enemies that Oni had turned into squirrels or newts - but never something inanimate turned into an animal. As if he'd needed further proof at how bizarre Caido could be! Considering what they'd just been attacked by... He suppressed a shiver, instead making a few notes in the margins of his map about what Remi had created. "All useful," he agreed. "That sounds like an amazing ability indeed but...? He waited curiously through the young mage's hesitation, trying to figure out where he was going.
He frowned at the implication - or rather, hurried reassurance - that Sam shared characteristics of a machine, but at the mention of Isla's Ascension he nodded slowly. What she had told him had created some interesting parallels with the androids in the Silvermount. Though, those had lacked emotions which Isla and Sam both had, as human as any other, and had very much not been drinkers of blood - or anything else.
Rather than respond immediately, Jigano took his time to think, chewing his lip as he split his attention between the maze and the puzzle Remi had posed. "What... sort of patch?" he asked slowly at last. The difficulty was in imagining what it would look like and how it would attach. Interface? Though despite being told that his Ascended friends lacked blood and relied on a mysterious 'fluid,' and that Isla's sight had been replaced - upgraded? - by the Voice he'd seen no sign of wires or gears or any of the things he associated with machines.
