His gaze moves over the thing automatically, not assessing -- he doesn't know enough to assess a damn thing -- but memorising, reflexively trying to remember enough to be able to draw it and all its weird little details later, one more weird thing for the Viddasala to get eyes on so the Qun can find out more about it. Hasn't had that urge to send reports back in a while, but he guesses it's not that weird for it to pop back up in his head now. Used to calm him down, writing it all out.

"Go right ahead," he says, noting the way Aden describes the thing to him, what it does, what it's good for, asks him if he's okay with it before he turns the thing on. Nice of him.

"Going to be good to meet him," he says and then, partly to make the message-thing feel a little more normal, mostly to give himself an excuse to smile about something even if he can't dig up anything as wide as his usual, "how hot is he? Be nice to have something pretty to look at."