[ Alfyn sure doesn't mind talking. That's a good thing after you've spent a few hours with the Disciple.

9S would offer to be a guinea pig if he knew what a guinea pig was, or if he had any kind of comparable biology. As things stand, he'd literally drop dead from mackerel, so who knows what Alfyn's concoctions would do to him. ]

That's great. If you like, I can help you hunt down some plants when we're back in the Index. Lets me put the "scan" back in Scanner, you know?