"I wouldn't want to leave it undone anyway, knowing what this sort of guy is libel to do to us if we don't get it done." Skorn blinked for a moment, though his eyelids seemed to be transparent when he did so. "Oh, I certainly need all the help I can get, so I hope you don't think what I was saying was, in any way, a complaint because it wasn't." He frowned for a moment and swallowed deeply.<br/><br/>"You work quite hard and do things yourself; I admire that." The planet that Skorn was originally from placed a great emphasis on responsibility, which might have helped to explain his response. He admired the fact that she wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty and previously didn't like the job that didn't give her the ability to get the work done on her own.<br/><br/>In time Skorn had quieted himself to give himself an ample opportunity to work exclusively on the motor rather than focus his thoughts elsewhere. Looking down, he eventually tilted his head. "Do you think that's about as good as we're going to get it? I don't know what you've been able to salvage out of the old pile here, but it wouldn't surprise me if you were able to get an entirely new rocket."<br/><br/>Eventually he just consigned himself to laughing. Something here was funny, but he didn't know what it was. Maybe it was because he finally found someone who actually didn't care about how run down everything was, but rather how well the work got done.<br/><br/>"If you wanted to, then we could go and get the person this was for. It's going to be a job and a half telling them." He figured that bringing the motor over was honestly going to be an adventure in its own right.