[Whatever response Monarch might have been expecting, she just got a small wave instead.]

Ah, so you both have your own help aside from each other. I have to wonder, though, how does Desi help you? I wouldn't think that those shadows of hers would be terribly conductive.

They kind of are, actually? [Having to avoid being shocked after blocking Asimov's lightning rounds had been proof enough of that.] They don't act as lightning rods or anything of the sort, though, so it's not as though I simply mark targets for him or anything like that...