Nerd recognizes nerd: Wei Wuxian grins, bright with understanding. "Ah, that is a feeling I know well," he says. "Even in the notes I have taken here, I fear I will duplicate something within my own work -- there is so much to learn, and there are so many papers I need to gather!"

He wiggles the small black portfolio in demonstration.

"Will you tell me more of your research? Is it anything I would understand, or are you from a world with flying ships and machines that can instantly do the work of a hundred men?"