[He exhales in a half-laugh at the question. Emissary, Jester, Glorified Town Crier? What's the difference, really? The smiling face the king sends forth to deliver his good and bad news. And as his High Lord became more and more withdrawn, he had less and less to do.] Something like that.

It's not the sound it's the- [Lucien shakes his hands above the thing, finding the word] buzz? It feels too much like magic. You're sure it's mechanical?