So maybe we don't have to fight them! Is there a monster doctor around here? [Grasping at straws here. Doesn't care.] There's-- I mean, would you like being kept in a weird bubble like that? How-- how long have they been in those bubbles, anyway? [He's sort of worried about what the answer to that one is going to be. Because it sounds like....

Awhile.

And that's when the rest of her comment hits him.]

Gems?! They're-- they're gems, too?! Like... [He rubs on the blue spot on his throat.] like me...?

[Well. That makes things different, just a bit.] I-- I can't just leave them in there!