Mykel took her hand when she seemingly offered it, staring intently at the red color, and even more so at the glow. He just had to find out what rearranged genes were causing that. Of course, he couldn't go and just ask her for a blood sample; being that direct would probably just scare her off, and Mykal was<span style="font-style: italic">not</span>going to let this one slip away. He hadn't seen controllable bioluminescence before.<br/>"That's fascinating, really. What degree of control do you have over it? And is there any sensation you feel when it glows? How long can you go for?" He was really just musing to himself about it, but if she answered any questions about it, that might definitely help. In any case, Mykel was only getting more and more curious.<br/>He let her hand go, and stood to find some booklet of notes to cross-reference anything with, skimming one for a second, then on to the next. He seemed to instantly go from all attention on Sunset, to everything on the books. Without warning, and without picking his eyes up off the books, he spoke again.<br/>"So tell me, what were you doing all the way out here by yourself? We're a ways from the town down there. And as you can see," He adopted a fake backwater yokel accent, "We got some gnarly critters 'round these parts."