[Too bad Shiki isn't here to introduce him to. Then again, he's also glad she's not here, because she's all kinds of embarrassing.]

They get rid of the Noise, so they work well enough. One of my partners, Shiki, had a stuffed cat--she claimed it was a cat, anyway, but it looks more like a pig--that fought for her. Supposedly she could direct it in battle, but not actually control it, or something.