"I love this thing. Pity it's too risky to kidnap Siemen and give him parts. He'd blow up my base."

"If I could, I'd be working day and night to design gadgets for you." She doesn't know where that came from. Work is one of her, like, top 5 least favorite things, but Mo's presence and adorable smile have made her slip into sub mode.

"Aww, you're too precious for me to experiment with preternaturality-inducing serums on you, but maybe one day."

"There are serums for that?"

"Well, not yet, but there's a first time for everything."

"Keep me posted on that one."

Nom nom nom goes the waffle. Mmm, bacon tasty.

"I thought you were hoping to just have some of the pearls to yourself."

"The supervillain is judging me for being overambitious?"

"I didn't actually become preternatural on purpose, you know! Most of us are born this way."

"Didn't mean you needed the island fortress and army of goons and uplifted belugas and whatnot. Or to balloon up to the size of a baby hippo, either." She flirtatiously slaps Mo's meaty thigh.

"My beautiful boiled balut, baby hippos weigh less than you when they're new. But yes, I took what I was given and live my best life with it."

"I mean, presumably you don't weigh more than an adult hippo, so there has to be some point in the growth process where the hippo weighs the same amount as you, and I'd be willing to bet it's closer to "baby" than "adolescent"."

"Yes, admittedly I am more of a juvenile hippo than an adult one."

Katie looks up from her phone. "Also, now that I've looked up what it is, I'm a little disturbed at being compared to balut. Are those actually good?"

"I like 'em. You have to get them from the right vendor in Manila though."

"Anyways, like, it's difficult for me to even conceptualize or believe that you used to be skinny. I wonder if one day I'll be like that."

"I was never skinny! I just wasn't quite so monumental."

"Still exciting to think that one day people will struggle to believe I ever was."

"People will look at you and say 'aha, she's got her own zip code, I'm not sure she even has ribs in there'."

Katie has no words, only profuse blushing.

"They will tell you your shoelaces are untied and you will not be able to check. You shall have more chins than Chinatown."

"Ok I'm horny but I'm not stupid, now you're just directly cribbing Fat by "Weird" Al Yankovic."

"He didn't invent it, he just popularized it."

"What, being fat?"

"The 'more Chins than a Chinese phone book' or Chinese whatever else turn of phrase."