"It's been an awful long time since I've written any experiment notes with a marker, but desperate times, I guess?"
"Are they at least scented?" This was very important for science.
She had to try not to snort at the moustache-smoothing. What a dork. She didn't seem particularly bothered by the pronunciation, at least, though whether that meant it was correct or just correct enough was anyone's guess.
"Well, it's a mutated back-and-forth kind of name, but originally Dutch. And appropriately so." She pushed the mushy peas around a bit before catching herself and scooping some up instead, like an adult. "It would've been too mean to leave Sylas as the only outlier from all these Americans and… I'm not familiar enough with Asian languages to identify them, but you get the gist."
"I've only had an apple one, and I think a mince, but I don't see how peaches could ruin it."
