"A replacement might be useful, but it would only be a surrogate. A proper psicrystal is as much a part of me as my scales... I can feel things that happen to it. I don't mean I feel pain, when it is hurt, but I can feel the blows, I can feel heat, or cold, or other things, from it... almost as if it were another hand. I used a surrogate, once before, and.. it functions, but it's like a tool, not a part of me." As she speaks, though, she takes the crystal, slowly manipulating it and handling it, imbuing it with a considerable amount of psionic energy, and handing it back to him.