He takes his time, meticulously poring over every thread. Because honestly, what else would you expect from Near? Learn as much as possible, gain an overview. Faces, voices, and names are all noted where applicable.

"In these worlds, some of us aren't ourselves; we become the people who are our closest counterparts within them. In the world that creature is from, I wasn't myself. I was a practitioner of the type of magic you saw outside. This," he waves his hand dismissively at the glowing robot while he continues to review, "is a far more broad and basic type than the specific disciplines. Each coded based on colours of the visible spectrum. The one I practiced and still do, is Indigo."

He lets that sink in a moment, allows Mello the time to connect it to what he'd called the creature outside, the one he'd said had definitely been after him.

"When I came back to myself, I'd retained a few spells."