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Had nobody ever taught Noble it was a bad idea to come up behind someone like that? Was that a thing people were taught? Should Kaiser tell him right now? He... was probably not going to do that, but all the same.
He had been aware of the professor approaching him, but the very nature of his sneaky approach made Kaiser's hand twitch like he was about to go for his wand. He didn't make it further than a couple of inches, however, bumping instead into a test tube and steadying it with that hand instead. Had he really thought he'd been in danger, however, the wand would have come out. But it wasn't, and they all lived happily ever after. Or something.
Kaiser watched the contents of the test tubes vanish into thin air with an unaffected sort of expression, and clicked his fingers in an 'aha' kind of way when the professor was done talking. "Two-five-nine," he repeated distractedly, and quickly flipped to that page in his textbook before he forgot it again. "Concentrate, right." That last part came more as a muttered reminder to himself, as though he could speak it into existence.
Starting again then, so Kaiser went to get the liquids he needed - taking his book with him this time as a reminder, and remembering at least to label things - and brought them back again. Using the textbook to help was all very well and good, and at least there were only a few short instructions at a time, but keeping his concentration felt like the mental equivalent of trying to hold a handful of water in his cupped hands.
Working slowly, because he kept having to check back because his brain could only keep hold of one simple step at a time, Kaiser added some of the Litmus solution to the tube of lemon juice, and then to the baking soda. Giving each a gentle shake, he watched one turn a kind of pinkish, vague shade of red, and the other a pale blue.
As he poured and idly watched colours change, Kaiser heard Noble pose another question to the class. He glanced up for just a moment, then looked back towards the equipment he had on his desk. At first he thought he might just sit back and not give any sort of answer, as he struggled to really wrap his head around it all. He definitely had nothing for the second question, that didn't change, but the first... well, it was a practical thing more than needing to understand the process. With one possible answer in mind, Kaiser kind of dipped his hand into the air briefly. "You have to use up some of what you are testing to do the test, and will not be able to put it to any other use. If you do not have much of it, or if every drop counts... then that is a disadvantage."
Kaiser supposed that he should also do the thing with the sugar, but it did seem like a lot of effort for not that much of a result. Maybe it only seemed that way because all this 'sucrose' and 'fructose' stuff was of little interest to him. He was just here to brew the potions.
Though he was sure the lesson would be moving along any second now, Kaiser went ahead and begrudgingly added water, sugar, and that other solution to a test tube and set about following the other set of instructions, which were also (mercifully) printed in his textbook.
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