Caleb grins, buoyed by Luke's amusement and joy. He thinks even if he weren't an empath, it'd be hard not to be. When Luke's happy, he's happy, in a way that most people aren't — either because they're too ashamed to show it, or because it doesn't reach them as fully as it reaches Luke.

He listens to Luke explain some dinosaur facts to him. Some of them, he already knew, but most of them he didn't. He'd been more into Harry Potter than Jurassic Park, so his interest in what Luke's saying is genuine, and he encourages him to say more as they finish eating, as he pays, and as they go outside to get Bopp.