We've made steps towards that- towards proper meetings, with the city-states' leaders and theirs. …For those who've been tempered, too.

[He wishes she could, and reaches for her hand to reassure her.]

That device? Ah, I knew it must be there for one reason or another… One moment. [He reaches into his bag to grab it, holding it out.] So, then- is it this one?

[…no, that's the status of his Rockruff.]