[It takes him a few seconds to parse the slang-- because what slang it is, and he's probably going to have to get used to it because he'll be living here for a while unless he finds a way back-- before he gets that the boy means 'it's not working right now'.]
I don't have mine with me at the moment.
[Nope, not even in the knapsack he'd pilfered from an unsuspecting local.
A lie, of course, because Kain isn't stupid enough to let a complete stranger handle a machine even he cannot comprehend at the moment. At least he's relatively used to lies that it comes out of his mouth easily.]
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I don't have mine with me at the moment.
[Nope, not even in the knapsack he'd pilfered from an unsuspecting local.
A lie, of course, because Kain isn't stupid enough to let a complete stranger handle a machine even he cannot comprehend at the moment. At least he's relatively used to lies that it comes out of his mouth easily.]