"I meant if we were attacked it would be good to know what handicaps we were under," Clare figured Excalibur was a touchy subject given he was a factor outside of Kid's control and defiant against order. "While not as nefarious or planned as the Witches poisoning the water supply, if the Witches caught wind of our current state it couldn't go well. I don't know anything of value, but if any of Shinbusen's trusted members share my condition it would be a problem." To say the least.

"I'm sure once this wears off everyone will want to forget it, except I probably won't and a lot of what I said will haunt me for years," Clare's version of that sentence went in a different direction before the honest kicked in.