"Good peach."

"So who's this guy?"

"This is Chair Sombat, he's going to be coming to the base with us after the con and we're going to make an ocean frog with miniature frogs on its back that can deploy like fighters."

"Like one of those gross trypophobia-triggering things where they come out of its back?"

"Yes, those!"

"Shit. That's gonna have some serious shock factor." Always a good idea to show interest in your partner's endeavors.

"It's also going to be super poisonous. I'm going to have to inoculate you if I don't want to wear three layers of gloves to bed."

"Is that gonna be any more painful than regular vaccination?"

"The shot won't be but you'll have a fever for a day or two."

"Uggggghhhhhh how soon do I have to get it? This is totally gonna cut into my workout, uh, it's not exactly a routine yet, but my attempt to become more physically fit."

"Sometime in the first week we get home."

"Uuuuggghhhh fine. The things I do for love."

"I mean, if you'd rather we could just not have any intimate contact for the duration of the project."

"No, no, this way's definitely better." Knowing smile.

"That's what I thought, morning bun." Buttpinch.

Blush. Happy wiggle. "So speaking of which, I just wanted to like, manually check if there are any kind of biotinkery improvements you could make to me that you haven't yet."

"Well, you said you didn't want to be blue. My hands are kind of tied by leaving you compatible with pearls."

"Yeah that's fair. People on the internet were just making fun of me for being clumsy and suggested asking if you could fix it, or anything else."

"If you hold on to a couple pearls they should help with that by way of telekinesis."

"Exciting!!!"

"It is! Chair, walk me through the metabolic pathway for the secondary again -" Technobabble resumes.

"What country are you from?", she asks Chair, giddy from the high of being shown off.

"Thailand," he says, in the middle of a tangent about neurotransmitters.

A goon brings them pizza. A couple minutes later another goon shows up with another pizza; they will apparently keep coming for a while.

Oooh, what toppings are on it?

The first one is a white pizza with corn and mayonnaise and katsu pork. The second one is a margherita.