[Eight had been actively listening, sure, but he'd gone back to his work too, not really looking at Megumi. But that makes his head snap up, pausing mid-scrub. Coalesced emotions into spirits...Emotional energy taking the form of something else.]

...What? Then...that could mean...

[Was he bent over before? He's totally upright now. His already large eyes have gone wide in shock.]

Listen, when I was younger, I had my memories taken from me and turned into objects. Or maybe those objects were infused with them somehow? I don't know, the records on how it happened were lost, but...I know it's a long shot but if emotions can somehow coalesce into an entity that affects the real world...You might be the first real lead I've ever found to reverse engineering the process and getting them back!