[That actually spikes his adrenaline just for a moment—understandably, he hopes, he's had enough trouble with face-stealing in recent months, and the gunshot scar on his chest to prove it—but since the mimicking smile is gone so fast, he can chalk it up to exhaustion or a trick of the light or something. It's fine. Not eerie at all.
Being called 'Doctor' is a little more eerie, it's been a while since anyone's called him that in a scientific setting, but he shakes it all off because this is a scientific setting, and he has science to do. He pushes off the stool and crosses to within arm's length, nodding down at the scale.]
Keep an eye on the numbers.
[And then he pokes Will in the shoulder with one finger and starts reducing his relative gravity. He still doesn't know how he's doing this, but it's clear that he can do it to people and not just objects. And not just people but everything that person is touching—clothes, watches, glasses—so it must be some kind of field he's generating. He doesn't look at the scale, in fact he looks up so he can't catch sight of it, then after several seconds:] If I'm right, it should read 50 now.
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Being called 'Doctor' is a little more eerie, it's been a while since anyone's called him that in a scientific setting, but he shakes it all off because this is a scientific setting, and he has science to do. He pushes off the stool and crosses to within arm's length, nodding down at the scale.]
Keep an eye on the numbers.
[And then he pokes Will in the shoulder with one finger and starts reducing his relative gravity. He still doesn't know how he's doing this, but it's clear that he can do it to people and not just objects. And not just people but everything that person is touching—clothes, watches, glasses—so it must be some kind of field he's generating. He doesn't look at the scale, in fact he looks up so he can't catch sight of it, then after several seconds:] If I'm right, it should read 50 now.