[Tear doesn't exactly want the whole cafe to know about hyperresonance. That'd be tacky.]

Yes, he is...

[It was hard to tell whether Tear thought this a good thing or a bad thing.]

No, there's nothing wrong. That's simply the reason we got... blown somewhere else. He and I both use the same type of fonons. I suppose the abilities canceled one another out, caused some sort of reaction - fonons vibrate naturally - and then...

Although it still seems odd.