Color Ignis shocked. And a small smile surfaced, pleased to find that his assumptions had, once again, smartly hit the mark.

"Then it sounds like I have arrived just in the nick of time," he observed, with a note of triumph in his voice. "Let's perhaps get some of this warmed up, and you can tell me more about how things went."

He did rather miss a bit of political intrigue every now and again, although he knew there was a good chance the political intrigue of Shane's world, in particular, usually only served to make him rather angry or annoyed.