[ It's the same sort of attention the animals in the pet shop they visited once upon a time gave them (though the puppies were much more wiggly than Carbuncle), so Nen accepts it as normal. They watch its tails move back and forth as it walks, but turn their attention back to E'kayan when he speaks. ]

Your world does not have elemental magic that you can use without a Carbuncle? I have not heard of an "arcanist" before, so I am not sure what that means in terms of magic.