"Obviously?" ( a brief pause. ) Isn't that how things like this are usually supposed to work?

( he means just, like... machines in general. but that would be for any device actually designed to work in a straight-forward manner, to do what the user intended it to and nothing more. this cube is not so benign, and it was doing what it was intended to do, but that intention had not been to be a perfectly functional music-maker and nothing more.

she doesn't say he can't or shouldn't break it, but considering she's holding onto it, it seems as though that's a no-go. not that that's legosi's first or even his fifth option when dealing with something, but he couldn't think of anything else...

mostly because he's new here and doesn't know what the usual panacea is. )

Mm? ( he lapses back into thought, resisting an impulse to pant doggishly. such a thing reveals one's teeth... it's common carnivore courtesy to learn to not do so so brazenly. ) Um... You mean, about the moons and that magical energy and...

( he falls silent as the gears turn in his canine skull and he puts two and two together. then his fur begins to bristle, standing on end. )

Is that what it's doing?! ( now he's really beginning to sweat. )