[There's a soft sound of appreciation at first, a little like a purr, then the tip of his tail begins to flick back and forth. This is the very thing he had been worried about. They had all read the reports of what happens to people here, the ones somehow attuned to the spirit veins, and Yrael cannot believe for a moment that it's a coincidence that this happened to him the very day he arrived in Kaisou.

They'd told him not to worry, and... well, he'd known they were lying. Yet he'd obeyed, like a good little boy scout. Like he always did.]

Keep this to yourself. I trust you, Jusis, you know I do... but I have some concerns about the rest of the cohort. [Most of them anyway. It's not a matter of their effectiveness, but the kinds of reactions he knows they'll have to this.]

And you should know... I haven't reported it, either. I have no plans to.