It's probably unfair to Cadens to even compare them to Fjerda a little, because no one is outright hostile to supernatural abilities here, everyone can do magic. It's just that they don't like the overreliance on it, or suspect people who care too much about it, as if they remind them of Thorne. Still, he has been told to be careful how flagrant he is by people he trusts, so he is warning her the same way he has been.

"Believe me when I say I would remember you, if I knew you." Not only because she's spicy and yelling at him, but also because she's hot. Flat out. Maybe hotter because she's yelling at him. Gray eyes narrow as he looks at the amplifier and wow, that looks hideous. "No, it doesn't, but ...." It's strange, something does hum very loudly about it. It feels powerful to him, he can sense it, and he knows Fabrikator work when he sees it.

"Is that an amplifier? There's something weird about it." Honestly his fingers twitch like they're intrigued by it, want to touch it, but he isn't that crazy. It's hard to explain sometimes, this pull he feels toward physical matter, although she's a Grisha, she might be the only one who understands.