Nagito giggles, a soft but insistent noise, like it's being forced out of him. "If you don't have the right wood, or if it's soaking wet inside where you can't see, it won't go anywhere. But I guess sometimes the only way to know for sure it to try and set it on fire!"

Ah, he wants--he wants to test it out. To test Mari. To see how far the hope of a normal girl can go in a place like this. But he doesn't, he doesn't have any of the usual resources here. But he has the others, he supposes. He has her brother at hand, and her brother is normal, and that's in some ways more than he had to work with before. He knows from Kel's messages that they can be hurt here. Does it apply to those of them under the Ferryman's protection? If it does, then there's pressures he can apply and levers he can pull and--