[She got plenty of experience after that, too. Velvet gives the metal arm a brief glance, then raises her own bandaged one and flexes her fingers.]

Then we're even. It'll be good practice for us to fight in ways we're not used to. I became reliant on this hand, I'll admit.

[His tech – and frankly, a lot of the tech she's encountered in Shehui so far – is beyond her, but she can totally understand why Shiro wouldn't want to waltz up to any random place to see if they could get his weapon working.]