"The... the uvula?" He blinks, surprised by the question, but then thinks back to the biology book Thorne had given him. "I think it prevents food from entering the nasal cavity when you're swallowing something, and it helps to produce saliva. Plus... some languages use sounds that you make with your uvula. Though that's just something it's used for, not exactly what it's evolved for."

As he's speaking, he carefully reaches out with the new power he gained in Newport, trying hard to replicate one of her abilities as subtly as he can - though in truth, he doesn't really know how to do it subtly, as it's not detectable by normal human senses. On the other hand, he doesn't know if she could detect this at all, or if it'll even work in the first place.