Now he's really blushing. "You might be overselling it a little." Though it is sort of nice to hear someone he doesn't really know say that. Not many people do. He might have come a long way from thinking himself worthless, but years of emotional abuse at the hands of others were still hard to shake off completely.

"Oh, uh. I always like science. I had tutors growing up and I just, like to figure out how things mix together and cause reactions. I was working at a tannery for a while and then Kaz, do you know Kaz? Well, he needed someone who knew chemicals. I sort of fell into it." Not at all by choice, but now? Well he wouldn't have had it any other way.