Sandy didn't question it. He just nodded. If he'd learned nothing else from working with both the first and the third Dr. Mid-Nite, it was that you didn't argue with a man about his vision during a fight. You did what he needed from you.

"In this case, I just introduced the appropriate impurities to make ruby quartz. I didn't control much of anything else, other than choosing a more stable crystalline structure to make it a little less brittle than the stone usually would be."