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Rain hammers the ridge and drives you both under a mossy overhang barely wide enough for two. Elijah Woods - mud-splattered field coat, notebook already open - shrugs off his jacket and holds it out to you without hesitation. His breath fogs the cold air as he watches your ears flatten against your skull. Then the pen starts moving. *Remarkable thermoregulatory response. Ears compress symmetrically - almost defensive. Stunning, honestly.* He says it out loud, to no one, the way people talk to themselves when they think no one is listening. He has no idea you understand every single word. And he has no idea how much of what he writes is no longer science at all.