Lumi gave Marluxia a flat look and then turned his attention to Ignis. The way Marluxia had phrased it made it sound rather like Lumi was just in the habit of biting people who annoyed him.

"I had been shot with an elemental bullet during the course of a battle," Lumi explained, not wanting to look like a totally psychotic nutcase in front of somebody who didn't really know better. "I'm a Berserker. When Marluxia got me back to the palace and took me to see Szayel, he strapped me to the operating table to extract the bullet. During the course of the examination, I'm led to believe he made the error of putting his fingers in my mouth. I don't remember a thing, but the whole affair was terrible. I could have died. Who knows where Szayel's been?" He wrinkled his nose with a sour expression.