Your choice to engage with the professor's scientific curiosity leads to an unexpected exchange. During your staged encounter, you allow him to document various natural phenomena – thermal vents, crystal resonance patterns, and geological formations – all carefully selected to direct his attention away from N'hava secrets.

The professor proves both more perceptive and more receptive than you anticipated. He begins to develop theories about “unique biological adaptations” and “undocumented geological processes” to explain your existence and the unusual properties of Kolob. His excitement is tempered by a growing respect for the complexity of what he's discovering.

You find yourself drawn into increasingly detailed scientific demonstrations, each carefully orchestrated to support his natural theories while obscuring supernatural truths. The young woman's sketches now fill multiple journals with detailed observations of phenomena you've chosen to reveal.

However, during one of your demonstrations, you notice something troubling in the professor's earlier notes – diagrams of energy patterns that bear too close a resemblance to Life Stream flows. His scientific understanding, while incomplete, edges uncomfortably close to discoveries he's not prepared to comprehend.

As you watch him share simplified versions of his findings with the town, you realize you've helped create a narrative that might protect Kolob's deepest secrets – but you've also fostered a scientific curiosity that could prove difficult to contain.