Kankri hesitates. "No, that does make sense," he murmurs after a moment. "I suppose that if I'm stranded in this sort of situation, it would be better to learn something like that. I'm just, as I said, quite inexperienced, so I don't even have a basis to begin from. I doubt I'll be able to do much for some time."

He sounds pretty glum. He is pretty glum, everything about this is awful.