[If Eddie enjoys creating potions so much, Chris has a lot he can help with. Or just throw random ingredients into a pot and see what they come up with. New world, different ingredients, maybe they'd come up with some cool new potion. It was something he'd done dozens of times before, something his mom had taught him and her grandmother had taught her before. How to create potions and keep your hands busy. Let your instinct guide you. Maybe, just maybe, Eddie's desire to do magic was a cool secret ingredient. Maybe he'd help come up with something new and awesome.

So, Eddie laughed and smiled, and Chris laughed and smiled.]

Wait till you see the ones that blow up and start spurting smoke while you make them! And yeah, that's the right shade of purple.

[Chris grabbed a spoon, scooped a little of the potion and flicked it at a nearby rock. Which promptly exploded. He turned to Eddie and offered the spoon in case he wanted to try a little bit of magic himself. Because that man seemed like he was eating this up.]

The crystals are for a different project. Kind of like a shield.

[Sure that shield also electrocuted people, but Chris was being careful with the kind of information he was dolling out. He could always show him after he got the crystals.]