He gives a happy little squeal.

"It'll be so much fun! And I'm sure Fern will like helping out with that once he's recovered."

Emphasizing, of course, that he will recover and be just fine and be able to help them with their experiments.

"And he does seem to be recovering okay. As far as I can tell. Which...I have no idea what I'm looking for since his thing seems a lot more plant based than Reaper's recovery, but he's still green, so that's good."

At least he figures it's good, since Fern is a plant and generally it's a good sign when plants stay green.