It had been a little while since Aurum had seen Clony, since his last trip back to Elysium had been some time ago. He had begun settling into Tanglewood once again, more comfortable than ever as he slowly coped with and put Moth's death behind him – as much as the new presence of Nicabar made that difficult. As a result, he found himself needing an escape less and less, so he spent only a marginal part of his time up in the mountains of Elysium. He figured it wasn't that big of a deal, since they had certainly lived well without him before, and could do so again. He did miss some of the people there, though. Such as Clony, the small batlike beast being a particularly entertaining presence for Aurum. They reminded him of Feza in the way that they came up with elaborate plans, and that was by no means a bad thing, since it had just made the angel more amused and comforted by their presence. Although there were a few times where their behavior made the lion grow concerned, like when they went off on a tangent about lasers, or went rambling loudly while on a cave exploration mission – an event that still made him wince even now.

When the sound of Clony's telepathic voice entered his mind, the shaderunner found himself perking up with both interest, and confusion. Since Elysium and Tanglewood weren't the closest of allies – not even technically really being allies – Aurum hadn't expected Clony to show up on their borders anytime soon. It seemed as though he was wrong, as evidenced by the cheerful telepathic babbling that kept going on as the angel made his way over. Metal? Project? It sounded familiar to Aurum, in a way that made the lion's heart sink a bit. He had already tried to gently convince the bat that perhaps their blueprints wouldn't actually work in any practical way, but it seemed as though that hadn't really stuck. Aurum didn't doubt that the other had come from another world – it would be sort of weird to doubt that, considering he was an angel and had seen much crazier things before – but it hadn't seemed to click for Clony that things weren't really the same here as they had once been. For one thing, lasers were hardly as important as the other seemed to keep hyping them up to be. Hell, the angel had never seen a laser outside of scientific books, and they were nothing like the ones that the Elysite kept going on about.

Making his way to Delilah's side, Aurum touched his tail gently against one of her wings in a silent greeting, before he turned his one eyed gaze towards Clony. Managing a small smile, the shaderunner dipped his head to them before he spoke, "Hey, Clony. I'm surprised to see you here... you said that you were here for metal?" He eyed the satchel that Delilah had brought back with her, somewhat wary about the dragoness indulging Clony's request. Briefly digging his claws into the shifting dirt beneath him, Aurum questioned with a tilt of his head, "I don't suppose this is for those blueprints that you were drawing up back in Elysium, is it...? The... robot thing?" He was fairly sure he knew what the answer to that question would be, but he wanted to give them a chance. Part of him wanted to point out that they had an entire scrapyard full of random junk that probably contained a bunch of metal, but he also didn't want to fully indulge them any further.