"It's pretty empty, here""If you hate how crowded this city is, Anik, you'd really hate what it's like on my home world! Well, if you would fit, of course. But, there are hardly any places that aren't lively! Things are kind of quiet in this place, by comparison."
"Well, I wouldn't say it's b--""The samples? For now, I'm just going to be taking closer a look them with my computer, to see what the make-up is like on a microscopic scale. I can't tell with just my naked eye, remember?""In the future, though? Who knows! It might come in handy at some point."
"Well, I'm a bio-engineer. Studying these samples could benefit the field of genetic engineering. Which, overly simplified, is taking one or multiple traits of one organism, and placing it another"
"Of course, I know what I'm doing!""It probably seems a bit daunting to someone not familiar with the field, but I've been doing this for a long time, and my people do it to ourselves, naturally!""Well, I say "someone not familiar with the field", but you've had experience with genetic engineering, haven't you? Going from human to... whatever you are, now?""Well, that just describes the technique used, not the field. ... Depending on what definition of magic we're going by, I guess?""Can you explain the process that went on that caused you to change?"