There's a slightly skeptical pause in response to that, but it's not like he can do anything about it right now anyway. Without much other option, Kiriya takes a moment to think seriously about the question.

"It's weird," he pronounces finally. He can feel he command rattling around in the back of his head, but it's also holding back the unseelie trying to crowd in, so net positive? Maybe? Whether it would be more or less strange without that added complication is hard to say.

"But better than the alternative, probably."