Noel was doing well, he was pleased to note. He could feel Grilka’s attention pass to him only briefly, otherwise it was focused on her. It was still nerve-wracking, of course, to have his sister so far out of his reach. But she was the one who thrived off this bullshit. It only became difficult when there were unexpected twists to what they normally expected of the characters she charmed. Such as having tentacles sprout from a seemingly solid coil of tail and wrap around his sister’s legs.
I have an important update about the tail. It has tentacles.
YES. NOTED. I NOTICED.
He was pretty proud of how he’d managed to control his own expression, but that cool exterior was threatening to break when he noticed how his sister was reacting. Noel obviously wasn’t prepared for the predicament she had suddenly found herself in. He didn’t have to wait long for her to voice her fears, either.
What do we do if it grabs my hands?!
A chill ran up Leon’s spine. He didn’t let it show, but the thought of losing out on communication with her, losing out on her expressed thoughts and feelings… They didn’t go into situations like that often. But she was panicking, he needed to be calm and in control. She could rely on him for this. He knew it and she did, too, even if she wasn’t aware of it at the moment.
We’ll be fine, you’ll still be able to see mine.
She still didn’t look convinced. Time for a distraction.
Hey, remember that human ambassador? The one who kept going on about ‘ancient earth cultural norms’?
Oh yeah, Way Too Much Eye Contact Guy. I remember.
Something in Leon’s gut relaxed once she started to play along. No situation was as dire as it seemed as long as she let him lead the conversation away from her own spiraling thoughts.
But remember his daughter and the ‘light reading’ she preferred?
....Oh gods, yeah.
You couldn’t speak to her for a WEEK. I had never seen you incapable of speaking to someone before.
I think I’m going to owe her an apology before this is over with, because those are gonna be more useful biological diagrams than the ones I was looking at earlier.
You really didn’t have to actually read the damned things.
It was like a shipwreck. I couldn’t stop.
Leon’s hands froze before he could come up with a proper reply. This conversation, if you could call it that, seemed to be practice in subverting one crisis after another. He’d managed to talk down Noel from visibly freaking out about being surrounded by tentacles only for an offhand comment about spots causing the two of them to lock eyes for as long as they dared. Part of Leon really wished he wasn’t here right now because all he felt like doing was groaning into a pillow for five minutes, because of course that was what Grilka was going to go looking for.
...it can never know
I’m thinking I’ll invest in some concealer after this.
For once, he wasn’t joking.
Good plan. If we dance, keep your shirt on, hahaha. You don’t wanna be where I’m sitting. It wriggles.
In more ways than we thought possible.
What they were talking about privately was a strange contrast to the verbal conversation happening around them. Vulgar hand gestures, frequent innuendo, Leon was torn between being amused and horrified about being somewhat propositioned by a giant alien into having sex with a different alien simply if he felt so inclined. He quirked an eyebrow at his sister, curious about her thoughts on this turn of events.
I have an important update about the tail. It has tentacles.
YES. NOTED. I NOTICED.
He was pretty proud of how he’d managed to control his own expression, but that cool exterior was threatening to break when he noticed how his sister was reacting. Noel obviously wasn’t prepared for the predicament she had suddenly found herself in. He didn’t have to wait long for her to voice her fears, either.
What do we do if it grabs my hands?!
A chill ran up Leon’s spine. He didn’t let it show, but the thought of losing out on communication with her, losing out on her expressed thoughts and feelings… They didn’t go into situations like that often. But she was panicking, he needed to be calm and in control. She could rely on him for this. He knew it and she did, too, even if she wasn’t aware of it at the moment.
We’ll be fine, you’ll still be able to see mine.
She still didn’t look convinced. Time for a distraction.
Hey, remember that human ambassador? The one who kept going on about ‘ancient earth cultural norms’?
Oh yeah, Way Too Much Eye Contact Guy. I remember.
Something in Leon’s gut relaxed once she started to play along. No situation was as dire as it seemed as long as she let him lead the conversation away from her own spiraling thoughts.
But remember his daughter and the ‘light reading’ she preferred?
....Oh gods, yeah.
You couldn’t speak to her for a WEEK. I had never seen you incapable of speaking to someone before.
I think I’m going to owe her an apology before this is over with, because those are gonna be more useful biological diagrams than the ones I was looking at earlier.
You really didn’t have to actually read the damned things.
It was like a shipwreck. I couldn’t stop.
Leon’s hands froze before he could come up with a proper reply. This conversation, if you could call it that, seemed to be practice in subverting one crisis after another. He’d managed to talk down Noel from visibly freaking out about being surrounded by tentacles only for an offhand comment about spots causing the two of them to lock eyes for as long as they dared. Part of Leon really wished he wasn’t here right now because all he felt like doing was groaning into a pillow for five minutes, because of course that was what Grilka was going to go looking for.
...it can never know
I’m thinking I’ll invest in some concealer after this.
For once, he wasn’t joking.
Good plan. If we dance, keep your shirt on, hahaha. You don’t wanna be where I’m sitting. It wriggles.
In more ways than we thought possible.
What they were talking about privately was a strange contrast to the verbal conversation happening around them. Vulgar hand gestures, frequent innuendo, Leon was torn between being amused and horrified about being somewhat propositioned by a giant alien into having sex with a different alien simply if he felt so inclined. He quirked an eyebrow at his sister, curious about her thoughts on this turn of events.
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