John performs a bow to thank the faeries. Marie follows, although with some slowness. He got used to the oriental customs of many friends of his. However, they immediately turn when the faeries remark he's able to see them.

"... You too?"

John asks David. Biologically augmented eyesight was one thing to overwhelm his senses. Another was having it augmented by magic. When he wandered around the multiverse, and around Forerunner constructs, the brightness of things bending the laws of reality made it as complicated.

Marie, however, looks concerned at John.

"What do you mean?"

How to answer this...

...

"Broke the 'no-drinking rule' when I finished a mission." He glanced at Yuuko before turning back to Marie. "Then this happened."

Marie Zofie was shorter than John, but she saw fit to grab his collar. "John." She began, with a sweet smile. "You know you shouldn't drink for a reason. Especially supernatural things."

...

"Yeah."

It was power, indeed, but even six years off-world by now, magic and Forerunner things still creep him out sometimes.