[Thunder pants happily when he's waved at, getting drool all over the shoulder of Katherine's robes; she motions him back and he obeys, instead looking in at the device over her arm, clearly wanting to keep an eye on what his owner is watching.

As for the mage, herself, she can't help the fond look at the pets. They're so cute, after all, and that he thought to go out of his way to introduce them just made his presence seem all the nicer.]

It's nice to meet all three of you.

[A brief pause, before she adds:]

So if you've had this device for "a while", has this...distribution of them been happening very long?

[She says "distribution" with a little bit of unease - after all, it was given to her by someone entirely undetectable to an extremely intelligent dog and two people who could sense magic.]