"Good," Eli murmured. "Callous disregard and mistakes should not leave a laboratory setting. That is what experiments are for." She squinted, sniffing the air. "Ammonia?" Her sense of smell was keen as a vampire, keen enough where she could smell how the man took his tea. But she didn't want to go into all of that.
Her own accent was a muddling of English, Swedish, and German, and she was careful not to touch his instruments. Eli was nothing if not polite.