Susan pauses for a long moment before she answers; there's so much ground to cover, too much really, and a lot of it involves things that she has no desire to say in front of others.

"You ... turned into a popcorn kernel," she says finally, shaking her head; it still sounds just as ridiculous as it always did. "It's been quite an epidemic, in fact, and -- oh. Oh my." She frowns. "If you're here and there's a popcorn kernel with your name attached back there, then -- hell. I must be -- damn it." She laughs a little, mirthlessly. "Well, that is one bugger of a botched spell. I knew I should have bashed out the research more before trying it."