"Honestly, the aggression's kind of growing on me. What better way to know exactly who I'm talking to?"

A pause, and a clattering of plastic from his end of the sending stone. He's clearly fiddling with one of the busted tape recorders while they talk.

"That would be amazing, though. I'm still happy to pay, even if it's instant. Think you could repair a single battery, as well? Or is it more... mechanism-specific? I hardly know where things like electricity and storage of it fall in place with technical repair. I've been considering seeing if one of the local mages could just, augh, I don't know... throw some charged crystal into the compartment and call it a day for the next eighty years without frying it."