It’s perhaps even more alarming whenever she takes him seriously, and when Gwenaëlle’s quiet, and he can practically see those calculations go on behind her eyes. Where others might (and had) shrunk away from these boundary-pushing scientific tests in fear and wariness, she was there, still willing to do the frightening and practical thing.
These are some of the moments when he likes her best.
So Stephen takes it seriously, that edge of humour straightening out in his voice. “You really do have a mind for Research, you know,” he says; the stacks of notebooks around him are a testament to that, still.
“In general, that’s why I’m on board with the lyrium experiments, too. As a doctor, I learned how the human body works: how it ticks, how it functions, how the blood and nerves fit together, what the brain does, what effects different drugs have. But with the shards, with rifter bodies, with lyrium— I just don’t know enough. We’re better-armed the more we know.”
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These are some of the moments when he likes her best.
So Stephen takes it seriously, that edge of humour straightening out in his voice. “You really do have a mind for Research, you know,” he says; the stacks of notebooks around him are a testament to that, still.
“In general, that’s why I’m on board with the lyrium experiments, too. As a doctor, I learned how the human body works: how it ticks, how it functions, how the blood and nerves fit together, what the brain does, what effects different drugs have. But with the shards, with rifter bodies, with lyrium— I just don’t know enough. We’re better-armed the more we know.”