Note to self: do not snap my fingers. Roan's lips twitched rather wildly as he tried to get another grin under control--and choke down a laugh simultaneously. It wasn't as if the snap's sound seemed to hurt Uala, but rather extremely alarmed xem. On his behalf. All those tentacles at once, trying to make him stop making that one motion...and it was only worse when xe swore again--he'd obviously failed to discourage its usage. He considered "kenah" again, the way it didn't seem quite right anymore. After all, his fingers were part of his body...and he was definitely of the living persuasion.
The blade...the other alien...OH. Things that could hurt.
"Snapping my fingers won't kill me," he offered, and demonstrated by sliding his fingers together, without making a click this time. "No kenah, see? I'm still alive. A'ish. Uala a'ish."
He wished he could see it from xyr perspective. What about snapping his fingers could kill him? Why in Novae would he *want* to hurt himself, especially while pinpricked full of needles he had to lie still for? Roan frowned. "Perhaps other aliens have not been so cooperative," he mused aloud. "Or maybe you thought I was going to hurt you?"
The Academy would have said to never be in this situation in the first place. If unavoidable--for instance, being unconsciously moved to a lab for study, because he'd never go there willingly, he'd be required to fight to get free. But Roan had his own code. Unless he had to fight to defend someone under duress, he wouldn't fight until he understood why his enemy needed to cause harm. Too many battles had been started and dragged out through lack of communication for him to agree to "ask questions later". It usually worked out well. And in cases like this: Uala hadn't tried to hurt him. Restrain him, sure, accidentally poison him...yeah. But not once had xe shown xyrself intent on dissection.
If other aliens had fought back, it was easier to see why xe would be so alarmed by such an innocuous movement. The only thing Roan could think to do to reassure Uala of his non-threatening status was to cooperate.
Once he'd rolled up his pants he got comfortable on the table again. Until xe flared bright green. The chirruping by his side got faster and higher pitched, and Roan couldn't decide if it was his growling stomach or his legs that provoked the reaction. He glanced at the screen, the full-body overlay that disappeared bit by bit up to his waist--paused--and then kept vanishing as xe continued to remove needles.
Ah, so his digestive tract was the problem then. Nothing he could do about that alarming noise, unfortunately.
Then again, the first time Uala had turned that particular shade so very, very quickly, with that same rapid-fire speech pattern, xe had been...
...on top of him.
...investigating his pants.
...INSIDE his pants.
Oh boy.
Roan's eyebrows scrunched together as he tried to connect the two events in any way--any way at all--that didn't suggest his dick was a major source of stress for alienkind.
He'd been preoccupied with escape and not hurting the alien who'd landed on him that he hadn't given the accidental pressure much thought. Now he knew Uala was trying to study him however, wasn't trying to hurt him, other possibilities were striking his frontal lobe like laser fire. His cheeks went ruddy as he turned his head to watch xem instead of the screen. Xe waved xyr tentacles around him and patted him down with towels and little collection tubes. Oh, if the Academy ever found out about this, he was going to be blacklisted so hard...after the lot of them stopped laughing.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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