Xe buzzed sadly as he threw the pit, an obvious sign of ill-temper. They'd been doing so well, too. He turned to look at xem, and xyr blush was very faint, didn't leave the edges of xyr eyes this time. He was probably just looking at food. Or the remote. He didn't say anything, and xe stuck a mussel in xyr mouth to crack it open with the point of xyr beak, carefully setting aside the empty shell instead of tossing it away. Xe scraped out the meat and swallowed it whole like an oyster, licking saltwater from xyr tentacle with a tongue almost as long and as nimble.
Xe dropped everything when he made a sound xe associated with distress, immediately up and out of xyr chair with both lunch and the remote forgotten. «What's wrong? Did something happen?» Xe descended on him without a thought to how it might look or whether it might frighten him, taking hold of the hand that had his attention so xe could see. "Weh! Ah, ye, Roan, wen w'ae keph ou." A cephalic tentacle uncurled to tap a sucker against the irritation, and it recoiled immediately with a reddish-orange tint. "Ah! Ah ye, ah ye." Immediately the two arm tentacles not holding his hand snatched the fruit away. Xe tossed it away unceremoniously. "Weh!" xe added after it, as if yelling at the fruit itself.
«Oh, you haven't been poisoned, have you? I don't know enough to fix you, yet!» Still holding his hand, two tentacles curled to frame his face, trying to look into his mouth to assess the damage. «Your skin is so thick! I didn't think it would bother you!» Didn't think at all, really. Just sort of assumed, probably foolishly, that he'd have some way of telling what he should and should not be able to eat. Xe didn't usually have this trouble with specimens! They came with their own food, so to speak. He hadn't come with anything at all, and xe still wasn't sure what xe was supposed to be figuring out.
Usually xyr job was to learn everything xe could to add it to their database, and to determine whether the planet xyr specimen was from was likely to be safe enough to colonize. Except, obviously, his wasn't? It already had people on it, for one thing. Great big scary people, who the interns thought were too dangerous to leave unrestrained. They'd rejected planets for far, far less. So what, exactly, was xe supposed to be finding out?
Hopefully not whether they could eat him. Xe was going to give a very firm no, on that.
Xe dropped everything when he made a sound xe associated with distress, immediately up and out of xyr chair with both lunch and the remote forgotten. «What's wrong? Did something happen?» Xe descended on him without a thought to how it might look or whether it might frighten him, taking hold of the hand that had his attention so xe could see. "Weh! Ah, ye, Roan, wen w'ae keph ou." A cephalic tentacle uncurled to tap a sucker against the irritation, and it recoiled immediately with a reddish-orange tint. "Ah! Ah ye, ah ye." Immediately the two arm tentacles not holding his hand snatched the fruit away. Xe tossed it away unceremoniously. "Weh!" xe added after it, as if yelling at the fruit itself.
«Oh, you haven't been poisoned, have you? I don't know enough to fix you, yet!» Still holding his hand, two tentacles curled to frame his face, trying to look into his mouth to assess the damage. «Your skin is so thick! I didn't think it would bother you!» Didn't think at all, really. Just sort of assumed, probably foolishly, that he'd have some way of telling what he should and should not be able to eat. Xe didn't usually have this trouble with specimens! They came with their own food, so to speak. He hadn't come with anything at all, and xe still wasn't sure what xe was supposed to be figuring out.
Usually xyr job was to learn everything xe could to add it to their database, and to determine whether the planet xyr specimen was from was likely to be safe enough to colonize. Except, obviously, his wasn't? It already had people on it, for one thing. Great big scary people, who the interns thought were too dangerous to leave unrestrained. They'd rejected planets for far, far less. So what, exactly, was xe supposed to be finding out?
Hopefully not whether they could eat him. Xe was going to give a very firm no, on that.
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