Kuja watched the stranger silently as he spoke of a type of monster he'd never heard of before, and he was about to say as much when Marluxia had continued on to somehow provoke new life out of the Iifa tree's trunk. Straightening back up to his feet, he closed some of the distance between them, eyes watching the stranger, though his attention was on the new growth.
Reaching out with a finger to touch the branch as if he expected it to vanish under the pressure of the fingertip brushing against its length. "How did you..?" he asked after a few seconds once it was quite apparent the branch was indeed a living piece of the tree and not a trick being played upon him.