They've talked about part of this before, for sure, but he didn't have solid answers then and he doesn't have new ones now. Still, it gives him a lot to think about. He idly taps ash off his cigarette, not noticing that it's landing on the newspaper which is probably going to start smoldering any second.

"It's called the calm-calm fruit for a reason," he says thoughtfully, as if doing so will unlock some new secret. "All I know is the waves... flatten, I guess. Wonder if I'm absorbing the energy when I do that, or if it just goes into whatever else is nearby. Do you think it'd show up as heat?"

He's trying to remember what he learned from the stuff he read months ago, but the possibilities have him pretty excited, and he has to share his other idea before he forgets it. "I don't know that I'm limited to sound. That's what comes naturally, and it's all I've ever read about when I tried to look up info on the fruit later once I had access to the Marine archives, but what if the 'calming' can be done to anything that's a wave?" Could he snap his fingers and turn out lights, short electrical circuits? Stop someone's heart? Not that he relishes the idea but he can't argue that it could be useful.