“Your determination is commendable. It might have been easy to take some other course of study, or to have found some other profession that has not changed so much in the intervening years. I am sure you have many talents, after all.” He had not meant the last to sound so flirtatious, and blushed faintly. “And yet here you are. I will find myself in need of your insight before long.”

“MRI,” Combeferre echoed the word, committing it to memory. “And this machine shows a different look inside the body?”