Hey, male academic disdain, you also are not unfamiliar.

Unfazed, Cosima sits across from him. If he wants the book back faster, well, she won't make him wait for her to walk back and forth. She flips to the table of contents, looking for a helpful heading.

"Yeah, the official project leader on rift research. We're kind of skeptical that this book has much of use in particular, but it's cross-referenced in something else and we're trying to be thorough. You know. Especially those of us with the things stuck in our hands." She waves her anchor-sharded hand at him once, briefly, without looking up.