[Emet-Selch waves the question on, he'll tell him to whom he is familiar and why he is aware of the phoenix once this matter of their shared circumstance is taken care of. He has far more immediate interest in that than a topic that will no more elucidate much for either of them about their current situation.

He watches Joshua's little display of fire impassively, his eyes going from the flame to his features after an emphatic beat. He doesn't comment on it.]

Echo? A rather intriguing name. Almost eerie in a sense.

[If one were to consider how the power of the echo connects to the aether and soul of othr beings... could that be related? He certainly has to keep possible options open.]

I did not meet any such Aurora character, nay. I appeared in some colosseum, forced to fight some creation that barely stood a chance, and now I am here scavenging like a fresh akadaemia student trying to understand the basics of phantomology.

[Emet-Selch pauses, realizing that the reference might mean nothing to this being, and so he sighs. Shaking his head annoyance.]

Though your conviction is not ill-placed. I will not suffer such imprisonment, and that this fool believes himself capable of detaining a member of the Convocation of Fourteen is absurd.