[Basil eyed the approaching Growlithe warily as she approached, but remembered that it was only proper to share. After all, Matthias had a few thermos' at home with more, so it wasn't that big a loss to hold out the cup to his new acquaintance!

Matthias himself snapped back to reality once the sword was sheathed and shook his head a bit to shake the fog in there off.]

Methuselah always said...it was the person behind the sword that mattered the most, so I suppose that's right. Still, it's a very impressive blade sir! Is it...will you actually be going out to travel soon? Outside of Union?

[He'd heard that message but...hadn't had the courage under him to actually respond to it, nor any information really that would have helped. No time like the present though.]