"You're not going to shrivel up and die." So overdramatic, but he was still smiling. "If you did shrivel up, I'm sure I could manage to find some means of reinvigorating you."
He sighed, like this was all just sooo aggravating, then looked at his tablet, mentally calculating how the lost time would affect his experiments. Not that adversely.
"Fine, I'll go with you. If--" He held up a finger. "-- you're willing to clean out the test tubes from my hyperdense texilicate substrate experiment. You're my lab assistant anyway, and it's always..."
He pulled a face.
It really wasn't that bad but an image had to be maintained here. Bargaining hid the sincerity -- and the sincerity needed to be hidden. He always felt strange and exposed whenever he was actually eager for something.
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"You're not going to shrivel up and die." So overdramatic, but he was still smiling. "If you did shrivel up, I'm sure I could manage to find some means of reinvigorating you."
He sighed, like this was all just sooo aggravating, then looked at his tablet, mentally calculating how the lost time would affect his experiments. Not that adversely.
"Fine, I'll go with you. If--" He held up a finger. "-- you're willing to clean out the test tubes from my hyperdense texilicate substrate experiment. You're my lab assistant anyway, and it's always..."
He pulled a face.
It really wasn't that bad but an image had to be maintained here. Bargaining hid the sincerity -- and the sincerity needed to be hidden. He always felt strange and exposed whenever he was actually eager for something.