[ His ability to read lips is not good enough to pick that up, but he can pick up on the confused look figure it out from how Shouto touches his own earring. Did he have no idea what he'd done then?

Allen gives a nod, idly touching his own earring. ]

Whatever you did before, I could hear you in here. [ He taps the side of his head. ] Like you were actually speaking. But the stone was really warm too.

I think it let you speak through it. [ It isn't the strangest idea, he's helped Viktor with his bloodstone research and it's done some pretty amazing things. But it's still incredible. Perhaps because it's also a dream and his desire made it reality? But who's to say. ]