Lucas was kind of STOKED that Airey found him funny, no matter how weird the guy was. Like CHUFFED. He beamed like a Christmas tree display and didn't blush ONE IOTA when Airey clapped. Because, duh. He was cool now.

But no matter because he had absolutely no idea what was going on about the growth spurt whizzbang. Um. Yeah. His elementary school science classes got into like THEORIES of the universe but not whatever Airey was talking about.

He wrote down QUARKS in big letters on his parchment just because he liked the way it reminded him of ducks and then started jotting down what Oichi was saying. Because that girl was spouting some cool stuff that definitely sounded right. And anyway, surely there'd be a question he'd actually know some stuff about?