Andi wakes up first. Bella's not far behind.
"Okay, can we repeat that or something effectively similar without the confounding factor in case the injury all by itself is affecting your speed?"
This time the morph is much faster. A little slower than coming back from Robin the first time, maybe, but not as obviously so.
"Incrementally nastier. Don't overdo it, and I don't think we should experiment with anything that could cause brain damage."
Definitely a little slow.
"Distracted," he says. "That's how it slows me down - it's hard to concentrate through it, you know?"
This round, Ethan puts the hammer down and breaks all of Trouble's fingers. And then picks it up again to finish the job, prodding carefully to verify that no bone in hand or wrist remains intact.
His morph to Robin is noticeably slow; his morph back is about like average.
(Occasionally she flips forward a few pages and writes indecipherable things there, not with the rest of her timing chart and its annotations.)
"Inspiring me? I don't think I'd describe it like that, what do you mean? Trouble, do of course say so if you need another break."