It's not the deep and warm resonance he has with Yako, but it's functional. He returns his eyes to his hand to inspect the sword now in it, automatically answering through their connection with a pulse of acknowledgement and determination before the thought better of it.

"We should see if we can find a working gondola, then," he said aloud instead. Resonation had a sort of intimacy that he enjoyed, and the direct communication was so much more familiar and efficient than spoken dialogue, but humans seemed to prefer their clumsy verbal method.