"I'll see if I can't explain more tomorrow, but as for now..." Damned if he could process how to lay things out. Not when he hadn't really slept the last night and had paced like a madman most of the day, desperate to distract himself while also keen on either looking for Archie or thinking up ways to attack the bots and do harm. "Will it suffice to say that the Malnosso are strange creatures and what they do rarely makes much sense?"

He paused, then added, quietly, "I'm glad, though, they didn't take it. That you have it."