"I was hardly asking for any kind of demonstration," Raine shot back. "Just answering some questions; we're trying to find out what similarities there are, if any, between Cruxis Crystals and blastia cores." No, it wasn't likely anything they learned would be useful here, but they needed to learn what they could while they were still in the same place.

Really, did he think she wished she had access to him and M-U tools? She'd been a little abrupt, but she didn't have a scalpel in hand or anything.