"Reassuringly normal," Spencer said, and was about to ask the same, and whether there had really been aprons involved, before movement in the corner of his eye caught his attention and he was busy skidding back around to a more respectable distance from Mikey so quickly he half expected to get burns (from the... wood? Nevertheless!).
"Um," he said, eyes going wide, and started trying to make discreet little head jerks towards where Nate was standing. Not only someone who knew them in general, but a student -- though that felt weird, considering Nate had only been a year below him in school -- and a student who was due to come and work assisting Spencer very soon now.
"When does your schedule suit!" he blurted out, a little too loudly. "For that -- project! That is being worked on! I do not know when you will be free, of course!"