Ed smiles at Victor and offers her his right hand. "April's mentioned you once or twice. Nice to finally meet you too. My reality has plenty of supernatural in it, actually, but... I'm not from Earth, and my homeworld didn't have anything in the way of stuff we considered supernatural, so, once I got stuck on Earth... kinda got tossed into the deep end."

Ed would be the fresh set of ears, then, and fortunately, those ears come with an IQ that's off the charts—though Ed's intelligence has always been mitigated by his fiery personality. Nonetheless, 'brainy' is definitely a very appropriate description for their resident Alchemist.

He slaps the book on his lap shut and sets it aside. Then he reaches into his knee-length red coat and pulls out his journal of Alchemy notes and his favorite fountain pen, setting them beside the Coke cans in case he needs them. "Sounds good to me," he tells Clark. "Lay it on me, guys; let's see what we can see."