He can't grin right back at her, but there's a definite excitement in his tone of voice and he's practically vibrating with happiness.

"That's proof that we're really here, I can use my alchemy again! I haven't been able to use it even once in Norfinbury."

It should have worked. Alchemy ran on tectonic energy, after all, and anywhere on the Earth should have that sort of energy to harness and use. He had suffered with it blocked before, but only briefly and in the smallest of areas.