[Lance watches in a mixture of curiosity and trepidation, and has to quickly make himself stop chewing on his lower lip when Ian looks up. The question earns a small tilt of his head and he furrows his eyebrows, and he offers a mostly useless response.]

I have no idea. I mean, they were god--or emotion-sucking alien, but whatever--given magic phones, I'm not super sure how they worked. I do know the network was specifically maintained by one of the gods, though I think it was the same one who provided the electricity, so...

[So really, who's to say? And, to be real technical, even if it was wireless charging, if the god's providing the electricity through magic then it's still magic. Sort of. Whatever. He honestly doesn't care as long as they can make the thing work.]