[Emil's circumstances make him uniquely predisposed to being wishy-washy, but he's already come far from what he used to be. Still, a lot of room to grow, and he knows he's got to grow, too. It's just difficult not to fall into his people-pleaser habits...]

[Oh, his Tenebrae impression got a laugh! Emil is very pleased at his success. (He kind of misses Marta and the way she'd join in on the complaints and Tenebrae impressions at times like this, but it's not like he'd expected Agnès to do that. The mental image he suddenly gets of Agnès doing so makes him hold in a laugh, though.)]

Bound to not be completely up front? You mean, sworn to secrecy or something? [Emil frowns, thoughtful.] Huh... I wonder if there's something binding Tenebrae. Since he's a servant of Ratatosk, maybe he's supposed to keep some things about his powers a secret or something...? You'd think he'd be more helpful since we're trying to revive Ratatosk, though...

Still, Tenebrae's not a bad person or anything, so I don't think he'd keep secrets if it was something important for me to know, unless he had to... Since he's smart, I think he'd leave breadcrumbs like those.

[chaos gremlin is a good description for Shizuna XD So annoying yet so cool...]