"Not very spoken at all, I imagine."

He steps back to allow her entry into his home... workshop. This is just a workshop.

"I'm curious about this discovery of yours. And the crystal shards. It goes without saying that I have been looking for some of the power sources we've known from our home. I've read up on some interesting things you can do here and am already experimenting a bit but crystals would go a long way towards the familiar.

"Surely you aren't about to withhold your source from me."