Sometimes trying harder doesn't result in much more.

[His brow pinches at that, things too fresh to completely shut away, but he mentally retreats from it like getting too close to a fire.]

I know how they're put together, more or less. And I got the idea for my hardlight blade from it.

[But even when he's floating in an emotionless void, it doesn't quite keep him from the interest of the weapon offered him. He does almost hesitate, but he takes it carefully in his hands, making sure which direction is where the emitter is. He closes his eyes a moment, wondering if he can hear its heart, the Kyber within, like he had Cal's.

Donnie holds it to the side to be on the safe side when he activates it.]