"I know what you mean," Otto agrees with a bit of a rueful smile. He enjoys learning! The breakthroughs are incredible! He also sort of thought he was done with school at his age!

"Ah, were you? That's good to hear!" In all honesty, he might have done so right away if not for David also being from the bowlcut-Otto universe; that gave him a little bit of pause. But it doesn't seem to matter, not like it would have if that version of Peter were there. "I'm very interested in this work, I'd love to be able to see it through."