She waves a hand at the offer, frowning harder at the pen. "It's fine. I can use the pen without issue most days. I just need to pay more attention to what I'm doing." She's not used to having a companion while she does research, especially one offering conversation engaging enough to distract her from her writing.

And everything Adia's saying is distracting enough that Amelia eventually abandons her pen to listen. She turns her whole body to Adia, her eyes slightly wide as she takes it all in. None of this compares well to things on her world, but her time in the Nexus allows her to understand the basics - at least of the machines. The mechanics of illnesses themselves are still completely foreign to her.

"How does seeing tiny things help with your work?" she asks after a brief, thoughtful pause. "People simply get sick from overtaxing their bodies or being of weak constitution, right? So why would a machine that allows you to look at tiny things even help?"