[He sighs, still smiling. He should know better than to laugh at the poor fellow, but he couldn't help it. The idea of one of the kitten-kind from around Bear Den walking up to him, looking him dead on with those huge, watery eyes of theirs, and proclaiming in a squeaky voice to be the 'ultimate life form' is downright hysterical, even to a guy who so rarely finds comedy in anything.]

My point being [he starts, apparently remembering what they were discussing] before we got so off-course is that it's odd that a powerful fellow like yourself seems so interested in the inner workings of healing baubles like the ones Galloway has constructed. Do you expect she'd make them just to backfire?