“Mmmmhmmmm and pain and deception and all that good stuff. You know, now that The Scribe is distracted with It - as well as other top secret plots - I can talk now! Plus, if you had drawn me, I totally could have stopped the person from activating it. Hard to utter an activation phrase when you are screaming in pain.”
The words came from both Notblades. As well as protections against high temperatures. And nukes, because the Scribe didn’t want whoever was wielding the Notblades to be susceptible to that, lest they die and the Notblades fall into the wrong hands.