"No kenah," Uala agreed, tentacles attempting to hold his fingers still just to be safe. «No doing dangerous things. I don't want you breaking any of your little bones, everything will be fine, really. I'm safe, you're safe, we're all safe.»
Hopefully. Xe was not actually entirely certain of that. This was the first time xe'd been told to study a person, and the intervention of Wakek suggested this was more important than xyr usual work. Though Uala thought all of xyr work was important.
Still. Xe'd never had a specimen be at risk before. Even the ones that turned out to be edible got kept as breeding stock. Roan probably wouldn't — that was — no, bad train of thought, abort, abort.
Specimens were important, people were liabilities. What happened when a person was a specimen?
The blood seemed to be gone, except for a few dots here and there disappearing quickly. Not too horribly injured, then. Uala gave Roan a final relieved pat with a towel. Everything: not ruined.
Except that his face was turning very red. Was that bad?
"Roan?" Xe touched one of his cheeks tentatively. Warm! Why was he warm? Like he had lots of hot blood all rushing to the surface of his skin, trying to escape. Had he done this before? She thought that he had, and he seemed to have been fine then. He'd been... trying to escape? Maybe. No. It was right after—
The touching. The accidental touching. Of... things.
Oh dear.
Why would that make his blood go all funny?
Oh no.
What if it was a mating thing? What if red was a mating color?
Oh noooo.
Xe backed away from the table, tentacles curling over xyr face to try and hide the color change. "Ah, ye. Ye ye. Ye, Roan. U'a, pha ye. Ge la... iwo?" Xe chirped nervously. "Yu iwo. Roan iwo. Ye uauak. Uala ye uauak. No." Xe smoothed out xyr skirts to make sure xe was covered, looking shorter and a bit wider all the while.
Hopefully. Xe was not actually entirely certain of that. This was the first time xe'd been told to study a person, and the intervention of Wakek suggested this was more important than xyr usual work. Though Uala thought all of xyr work was important.
Still. Xe'd never had a specimen be at risk before. Even the ones that turned out to be edible got kept as breeding stock. Roan probably wouldn't — that was — no, bad train of thought, abort, abort.
Specimens were important, people were liabilities. What happened when a person was a specimen?
The blood seemed to be gone, except for a few dots here and there disappearing quickly. Not too horribly injured, then. Uala gave Roan a final relieved pat with a towel. Everything: not ruined.
Except that his face was turning very red. Was that bad?
"Roan?" Xe touched one of his cheeks tentatively. Warm! Why was he warm? Like he had lots of hot blood all rushing to the surface of his skin, trying to escape. Had he done this before? She thought that he had, and he seemed to have been fine then. He'd been... trying to escape? Maybe. No. It was right after—
The touching. The accidental touching. Of... things.
Oh dear.
Why would that make his blood go all funny?
Oh no.
What if it was a mating thing? What if red was a mating color?
Oh noooo.
Xe backed away from the table, tentacles curling over xyr face to try and hide the color change. "Ah, ye. Ye ye. Ye, Roan. U'a, pha ye. Ge la... iwo?" Xe chirped nervously. "Yu iwo. Roan iwo. Ye uauak. Uala ye uauak. No." Xe smoothed out xyr skirts to make sure xe was covered, looking shorter and a bit wider all the while.
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