Once they'd had their look, Lloyd pulled his hand back, rubbing the skin around the Exsphere's crest almost reflexively. He hadn't worried about hiding it in a pretty long time, but that was largely because most of the people he was around already knew about the Exsphere. Here it was different. People saw it, but didn't realize there was any reason to give it a second thought. As far as Lloyd knew, only Kratos knew of its significance, and he was pretty sure he could trust Kratos not to talk.

Ed and Al, though... He'd only just met them. Could he trust them with this?

I trusted them with my life last night. They trusted me with theirs. He took a breath and let it out. That would have to be good enough.

"It's an Exsphere," he began. "It's a stone from my world that can amplify people's power if it's attached directly to their skin. It has to have a Crest, though, or it'll make them sick. The problem is..." He swallowed. This was the part he hated. "The problem is they're made from people's pain and human sacrifice."

Sacrifice... He stared at Al queasily. "So in order to make your body, they had to sacrifice someone else's?"