[Kimblee's attention is immediately drawn away from Armstrong's face; he hasn't missed those glowing sigils out of the edges of his gaze, and for a moment his focus lingers there, the look in his eyes intense.
However, that odd, manic smirking hasn't quite left him, either.]
...is that so.
[And even as the words leave him he's shifting position, bringing his hand away from his face, keeping both down around waist-level so that he can activate his arrays quickly if he needs to; somehow, he doesn't doubt that he'll need to.
He has the Stones, of course - two of them in his possession, a gift from Johto last December. He keeps one of them in an inside pocket of his clothes; he'd need to be able to get to it, to establish physical contact with it should he want to actually use it. The other, however...he's keeping that one far closer.
He doesn't bring it up just yet; there's no sense in displaying his trump cards so early. There's a chance Armstrong had seen him using his alchemy, and so he already knows - but if he doesn't...]
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However, that odd, manic smirking hasn't quite left him, either.]
...is that so.
[And even as the words leave him he's shifting position, bringing his hand away from his face, keeping both down around waist-level so that he can activate his arrays quickly if he needs to; somehow, he doesn't doubt that he'll need to.
He has the Stones, of course - two of them in his possession, a gift from Johto last December. He keeps one of them in an inside pocket of his clothes; he'd need to be able to get to it, to establish physical contact with it should he want to actually use it. The other, however...he's keeping that one far closer.
He doesn't bring it up just yet; there's no sense in displaying his trump cards so early. There's a chance Armstrong had seen him using his alchemy, and so he already knows - but if he doesn't...]
And what are you intending to prove, if I may?