"A dear friend gave it to me for safekeeping." He'd known them for only a few days, but they'd been so useful already. Shame they weren't here. "Don't worry--It's quite well-behaved at the moment."

But what to make of this fellow captive? She certainly didn't look human like all the rest, and--those were her ears, weren't they? Gods, what had happened in this woman's family tree? And her eyes--was she blind?

In any event, it was time to start joining himself to useful people again. Certainly nobody else had stood out yet. "I'd dare say we're the only ones here who aren't human. What sort of backwater have we been dragged into?"

(ooc: If you're running with it, I'm happy to run with 'human' and 'elf' getting translated by the pendants to 'hyur' and 'elezen', and vice versa. Bless FFXIV and its bespoke names for everybody.)