Howard wouldn't have, had he stopped long enough to think before doing that. Sometimes Zou seems so unfazed it's easy to forget. Easy to think of him as some unstoppable, imperturbable force of nature instead of a person. Which, Howard realizes, is no better than what he just tried to mock. He drops his eyes to the floor, suddenly totally interested in his shoelaces.

"That's what I'm saying. You'll take out all these easy-peasy fire-shooting Ohm and dinosaurs and you'll be totally out of shape when you go home. I worry about these things, man."