[Wuxian's eyes widen as the creature speaks. He'd been prepared for an attack if anything - and he'd been ready to strike back, at that - but actual speech? Most non-humans he knows aren't capable of that! Something like this metal... something-or-other talking is even less expected than a talking plant.
Then what the creature says sinks in, and Wuxian is less concerned about the messenger than the message.]
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Then what the creature says sinks in, and Wuxian is less concerned about the messenger than the message.]
On us? Let me see.