"Precisely!" He snaps back to his regular energy almost immediately, extending his pointer finger in exclamation as if Martin had said something brilliant. And most other people thought he was odd for checking it so often!

"Hah, I wish you had, honestly. I could've come and helped you with it, if you hadn't minded."

He'd never been in a proper lab before unless it was doing the whole, running brain scans thing and whatnot.