Oh. I thought that the book and the power you mentioned were connected.

[Evidently not, based on how horrified the younger man looks. So that's an entirely different situation with some other cosmic supernatural bullshit. Qrow frowns at the thought. Why did there always have to be so many different layers of nonsense?]

He said they leak in from outside your planet, right? Ours are uh, home-grown, you could say. Fire works for them, but concrete's a new one. Probably not worth the effort, either...unless that just happened to be your Semblance, I guess.

[He shrugs. There's also the fact that Ruby's eyes could turn them to stone, but that is still something he's not going to talk about to people outside of Remnant. It's too risky, in case Salem ever shows up and tries recruiting again, even though the war would be pointless to resume here in Deerington.

The waitress leaves, and Gerry's next question hits a little closer to home than he expected. He rubs at his neck.]

I mean, I did. But I was good at killing monsters before that. Kinda comes with the territory, when you grow up outside the main kingdoms.