[He knows how you roll, Taako. Barry meets the laughter with a little grin.]

Thanks, bud.

[Taako’s suggestion gets a little shrug.] That could be it. We dunno how this thing works yet, if it detects magic at all. Part of why I’m doin’ this, so we’ll have some field notes goin’ into it. As far as I understand, Dr. Alphys is magic too? But in a different capacity from us.

[Barry scribbles a couple more notes. His thumb has started rubbing little circles over one of the intricate patterns carved into the fragment. When did he start doing that?] As for whether they’ll let us have’em, I mean… I’d like t’see’em barge in and take’em back from us. If they want’em so bad.