“It’s a great thing, isn’t it?” Blaze looks between both of them, her gaze bright and joy in her voice. Being drunk and back in her own body has her downright bubbly. “Knowing there’s always another horizon. Always another space of possibilities you haven’t explored. You’ll do thousands of things we didn’t and we- we’ll do things you never need, I hope.

“I mean-“ she waves at Hughes, “alchemy never worked for us and magic is sorta recent. If it’s the same thing you call magic. Suppose your demons work in a similar way. Contracts and all. Haven’t had more trouble with those, have you?”

Drunken robot means talkative, thinking-out-loud robot.