She might have objected to the characterization of herself as broken, but she snorted anyway at his comically accented rambling. Did he ever stop talking? She watched text flash by too quickly for her to read on her bracelet, and so she got her tablet back out of her pocket to see what he was saying.
Was he saying he was stupid, or the droid? She looked from the screen to the droid, the door still not open enough to allow access.
That did not look like a droid well-suited to carrying a woman around.
"Y'ain't really allat great't th'plannin' part, are ya?" she asked as she leaned in the door. "Was there a plan?" She was beginning to have significant doubts on that front. The trappings of a mastermind had fooled her for a bit, but her initial instinct seemed closer to the mark: bossy nerd on a power trip.
The apparent incompetence was actually kind of endearing, in its way. Not that she would ever say as much.
Grilka felt against eir tendrils the way Sascha started to stiffen, darting tongues tasting the beginnings of panic before ey withdrew. A touchy spot, then, those eyes. Something to poke at, but delicately. For now. Though it had not been deliberate to unnerve her, it seemed to serve well as she spoke unguarded.
Before the interruption.
Ey clicked eir teeth in irritation, attention turning to the door. Ey moved impatiently, 'stood' as ey turned with eir tail rearranging all the while. It was almost hypnotic in the smooth grace of the motion, tendrils sliding over one another, letting em move and for a moment seeming as if ey might let Sascha go, holding her securely all the while. Ey'd gotten very good at that over the years, carrying people in various arrangements for occasionally startling distances. More than one limited eir range of motion more than ey liked, but it was still doable.
Ey loomed up behind Kreska, opening the door wider from above her head. She huffed in irritation, nearly stepping out of the room in her desire to keep her distance from the Krotazi, stopped by her desire to go no nearer to the droid. Grilka had no such difficulties, and as always ey expressed eir impatience by moving people rather than waiting for them to move. One hand wrapped around Kreska's arm to yank her back into the room, and it may have been deliberate that talons mapped to bruises now covered by her jacket, made her wince as she stumbled backward. Simultaneously eir two right hands reached out to grab the droid and pick it up as easily as ey would have picked up a person. Ey pulled it inside, and dropped it unceremoniously as ey shut the door.
Sascha, being new, was still held quite gently.
"There," ey said, "much better." Kreska was already attempting to distance herself from the group Grilka had made of them, a situation Grilka dealt with by pushing her back toward the problematic droid. Which, still being heaped on the floor, she tripped over backward. This, too, may have been deliberate. Kreska scowled at em from where she sat now on the floor, pulling her legs away to safety and holding her injured hand and her tablet in her lap. She did not bother trying to get back up, and Grilka rewarded this by taking attention away from her, activating eir holo-display again.
"Stolen," ey said, sibilant satisfaction. "This is the same one, yes, this friend of yours? The one who drills holes in things that do not belong to him, the one who is so very bad at being helpful?" The questions were pointed, but a few tendrils unwound from eir tail to pat reassuringly at Sascha's hair. "Not that he does not mean well, I am sure," ey said, sounding not sure at all. Ey left eir display open, considering the pile of droid and Jobari through it, still watching Sascha out the corner of eir eye. "Was 'clusterfuck' what you were going for, friend-of-a-friend?"
Was he saying he was stupid, or the droid? She looked from the screen to the droid, the door still not open enough to allow access.
That did not look like a droid well-suited to carrying a woman around.
"Y'ain't really allat great't th'plannin' part, are ya?" she asked as she leaned in the door. "Was there a plan?" She was beginning to have significant doubts on that front. The trappings of a mastermind had fooled her for a bit, but her initial instinct seemed closer to the mark: bossy nerd on a power trip.
The apparent incompetence was actually kind of endearing, in its way. Not that she would ever say as much.
Grilka felt against eir tendrils the way Sascha started to stiffen, darting tongues tasting the beginnings of panic before ey withdrew. A touchy spot, then, those eyes. Something to poke at, but delicately. For now. Though it had not been deliberate to unnerve her, it seemed to serve well as she spoke unguarded.
Before the interruption.
Ey clicked eir teeth in irritation, attention turning to the door. Ey moved impatiently, 'stood' as ey turned with eir tail rearranging all the while. It was almost hypnotic in the smooth grace of the motion, tendrils sliding over one another, letting em move and for a moment seeming as if ey might let Sascha go, holding her securely all the while. Ey'd gotten very good at that over the years, carrying people in various arrangements for occasionally startling distances. More than one limited eir range of motion more than ey liked, but it was still doable.
Ey loomed up behind Kreska, opening the door wider from above her head. She huffed in irritation, nearly stepping out of the room in her desire to keep her distance from the Krotazi, stopped by her desire to go no nearer to the droid. Grilka had no such difficulties, and as always ey expressed eir impatience by moving people rather than waiting for them to move. One hand wrapped around Kreska's arm to yank her back into the room, and it may have been deliberate that talons mapped to bruises now covered by her jacket, made her wince as she stumbled backward. Simultaneously eir two right hands reached out to grab the droid and pick it up as easily as ey would have picked up a person. Ey pulled it inside, and dropped it unceremoniously as ey shut the door.
Sascha, being new, was still held quite gently.
"There," ey said, "much better." Kreska was already attempting to distance herself from the group Grilka had made of them, a situation Grilka dealt with by pushing her back toward the problematic droid. Which, still being heaped on the floor, she tripped over backward. This, too, may have been deliberate. Kreska scowled at em from where she sat now on the floor, pulling her legs away to safety and holding her injured hand and her tablet in her lap. She did not bother trying to get back up, and Grilka rewarded this by taking attention away from her, activating eir holo-display again.
"Stolen," ey said, sibilant satisfaction. "This is the same one, yes, this friend of yours? The one who drills holes in things that do not belong to him, the one who is so very bad at being helpful?" The questions were pointed, but a few tendrils unwound from eir tail to pat reassuringly at Sascha's hair. "Not that he does not mean well, I am sure," ey said, sounding not sure at all. Ey left eir display open, considering the pile of droid and Jobari through it, still watching Sascha out the corner of eir eye. "Was 'clusterfuck' what you were going for, friend-of-a-friend?"
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