"I think mostly the science was crowd migration patterns and how they pertain to having an anomaly of above-average size in their midst." She replied, smiling again, because really she couldn't help it, half of her science-talk came from science fiction, and the other half came from nature documentaries.

"And if the reaction is different from a single anomaly to a paired one." She shrugged carefully so as not to dislodge Bob from his perch, "Of course, we've just got field notes as to the singular, we'll have to compare later."