They are alike in more ways than she would ever want to admit. Himeka has, at least, finally accepted that she values feeling powerful and becoming stronger in her fields of expertise. That it isn't just in exploration that she finds joy, but there is an undeniable rush of adrenaline when she can have aether respond to her call in brilliant explosions. She may not often start fights but has long since drawn issue with finishing them.

It's part of what makes them a dangerous combination given his own proclivity to the former.

It was a reaching on her part, but Zenos will feel the slight pang of frustration or disappointment that he has nothing to offer in that regard, fair though it is. She would like to return to her comrades with more than a warning that her efforts in the dreamscape were for naught and that they have more than one problem on their hands.

She huffs through her nose, narrowing her gaze out towards the water.

"I may have been hoping that grand speeches of plans and intent were something of an epidemic amongst evil overlords."

Okay, that was definitely speaking without thinking.