"It'll be fine," Val assured him. "Dirty little secret of the medical profession--they only take as much as they do because smaller amounts are too difficult to work with." She made grabby motions with her free hand to emphasize how small she was relative to the volume of energon she'd collected. "Not a problem for me."

She tweaked a setting on the torch and flame color changed to a cooler-burning yellow-orange so she could weld the hole closed. "Let me know if I need to do a better patch. I can whip up something to match your finish color if you hang around for a bit."