( They're tit for tat on those callouses; such is life when you're an engineer. Something to add to the growing list of insight-inspiring facts he's accumulating over the course of this interaction.

He snorts out a laugh at the demonstration — it isn't mean spirited, it's not really insulting, at least not to the average person, Mops might not agree. Honestly, it's hard for anything Ian does to come across as offensive to most people just because of the stable, calm disposition he wears at all times. If anything, it usually feels like he's sharing an inside joke — some real 'laughing with you not at you' energy over here. )

That's not a bad guess when you don't have any real frame of reference. It's pretty close. I--

( One faltering, faux-reluctant beat. )

I gotta ask... did you try shaking hands that way at anyone yet?