(If she doesn't trust him with Ken's food why doesn't she just do it herself-)

He takes a deep breath to keep calm and turns his attention to his own food. 

Remi joins them at this point, covering a yawn as he grabs some food for himself and settles at the table. 

"...Good morning, boys, Roaja," he says tiredly. "...We need to talk about what happened last night." The prospect makes him look even more tired.

"Okay."

"Have you figured out who spiked the drinks?"

"We haven't, no. It's not a simple thing to do. There were so many people at that party, and while plenty of people made accusations, no one has come forward with any credible evidence."

Roaja harrumphs and tries to feed Kenta with a spoon, her son objects to this.

"How about the others caught in the blast? Are they okay?"

"They're going to be fine," he assures Heri, "Their injuries won't even keep them down for very long." He looks around at the three of them, "You three should know, none of you did anything wrong. You could have been more cautious, but reasonably speaking you were both," he addresses the twins, "As careful as you should have been. This situation was a failing on the part of the party organizers, not you, and one which they will be correcting in the future."

...Tobir doesn't really find this any more reassuring than Heri's words were, yesterday. 

Heri still thinks that the party organizers didn't do anything wrong, given it was his idea in the first place.

Roaja will just ignore this and fuss over her son again.

Remi sighs, setting the topic aside. "If you're feeling up to it, they're still expecting you at the testing lab today," he tells Tobir, "And could likely use your help," he adds to Kenta and Heri, "Given that you'll be using the portal crystals too." 

"I want to go, mom." Kenta says before Roaja can get a word edgewise.

"Of course, honey." She pats his head.

"I will help."

"Okay," Tobir agrees. 

...the somewhat tense mood continues throughout the rest of the meal. Once they're done eating, they head out to the lab. 

"Make sure Kenta does not get hurt," Roaja says before they leave.

"...We will." 

On to the lab. Shortly after they arrive, Tobir recalls the quick portals Heri and Kenta had made the night before, and hesitantly brings them up to Henry Tutor.

He is interested and wants to perform the relevant tests around the concept.

It takes Tobir a bit to figure out how to do what Heri and Ken had done, but once he does the four of them can test it to their hearts' content. It turns out that, on top of the stable portals, it's possible to form emergency short-term portals in a much smaller period of time. They only last for a couple seconds longer than they take to create - about 3 seconds and 1 second, respectively - however. The targeting is much less precise, as well, and their reach is much shorter, and there's no way to control what can and can't go through them, or at least it doesn't seem possible for now.

"So... It's a trade-off, stability and safety for speed." 

"It's an amazingly versatile power. You're very lucky."

"Yeah, really lucky," he agrees. He shakes his head, "So... we should work on growing our crystals, right? And on making what can and can't get through more specific. If we can narrow it down to 'just the visible light spectrum', then it should be safe to try opening portals off-planet, right?"