Roan turned to face xem fully and realized he couldn't.
Concern trickled in more rapidly, clearing the last of the fuzz from his brain. Hospital. Right. They didn't use immobilizers there. A medical clinic might. Or, you know...a sideways step from that, directions his mind didn't really want to take. Like prison check-ins. Places where humans should really not be tossed in with the gen pop, regardless of their training. "Uh. Is there a particular reason why I'm wearing cuffs?"
He'd barely gotten the question out when tentacles sailed toward him, and immobilizers meant he couldn't duck away as xyr limbs latched around his skin, smooth and more than a little alarming and far too...close. The pat to his chest was received with a widening of his eyes, and he shook his head as if it hadn't cleared up in the slightest. Black locks shuddered around his shoulders.
Wavering slightly with the force of xyr sudden recoil, he wondered if xe had finally realized xe had the wrong man. Until his head was buffeted with touching next. Petted, really. By tentacles. Was this some cultural thing? He couldn't place the type of alien before him, and it certainly didn't seem like asking was getting him anywhere. Xe withdrew slower this time and xyr eyes seemed to brighten slightly; Roan cocked his head to the side. What does that mean? Good things? Bad things?
His tongue finally untangled itself. "I'm sure we can clear this up if we just call--what are you doing?"
Despite the cheery sounds emanating from xem the sight of sterile tentacle coverings had Roan attempting to move. Fast and far. Failing, but definitely attempting to strain against the cuffs. Bad things. Very possibly bad things. What did xe want? He had a feeling the only way he was going to find out would be through experience, since verbal communication didn't seem to be getting him anywhere...and he wasn't at all certain that was going to end well. His hands twitched with the need to try hand gestures, wishing broad sweeps of his arms were possible to get his point across more eloquently. "Really, I'm fine. Everything's great. The containment cell, the cuffs...it's all fine. I'll just go and..."
And nothing, because it was painfully obvious he wasn't going anywhere. The pod closed behind him and when xe returned to his front, Roan gave it an uneasy smile that showed teeth. "Hey gang. You can come out now. This was a good one."
And then he sat, because there were no Protectors coming, no other guardian ranks hiding behind a wall or post waiting to jump out and guffaw like the clowns they were. Doing what xe appeared to want might very well be the fastest--if not the only--way out of the cuffs.
Concern trickled in more rapidly, clearing the last of the fuzz from his brain. Hospital. Right. They didn't use immobilizers there. A medical clinic might. Or, you know...a sideways step from that, directions his mind didn't really want to take. Like prison check-ins. Places where humans should really not be tossed in with the gen pop, regardless of their training. "Uh. Is there a particular reason why I'm wearing cuffs?"
He'd barely gotten the question out when tentacles sailed toward him, and immobilizers meant he couldn't duck away as xyr limbs latched around his skin, smooth and more than a little alarming and far too...close. The pat to his chest was received with a widening of his eyes, and he shook his head as if it hadn't cleared up in the slightest. Black locks shuddered around his shoulders.
Wavering slightly with the force of xyr sudden recoil, he wondered if xe had finally realized xe had the wrong man. Until his head was buffeted with touching next. Petted, really. By tentacles. Was this some cultural thing? He couldn't place the type of alien before him, and it certainly didn't seem like asking was getting him anywhere. Xe withdrew slower this time and xyr eyes seemed to brighten slightly; Roan cocked his head to the side. What does that mean? Good things? Bad things?
His tongue finally untangled itself. "I'm sure we can clear this up if we just call--what are you doing?"
Despite the cheery sounds emanating from xem the sight of sterile tentacle coverings had Roan attempting to move. Fast and far. Failing, but definitely attempting to strain against the cuffs. Bad things. Very possibly bad things. What did xe want? He had a feeling the only way he was going to find out would be through experience, since verbal communication didn't seem to be getting him anywhere...and he wasn't at all certain that was going to end well. His hands twitched with the need to try hand gestures, wishing broad sweeps of his arms were possible to get his point across more eloquently. "Really, I'm fine. Everything's great. The containment cell, the cuffs...it's all fine. I'll just go and..."
And nothing, because it was painfully obvious he wasn't going anywhere. The pod closed behind him and when xe returned to his front, Roan gave it an uneasy smile that showed teeth. "Hey gang. You can come out now. This was a good one."
And then he sat, because there were no Protectors coming, no other guardian ranks hiding behind a wall or post waiting to jump out and guffaw like the clowns they were. Doing what xe appeared to want might very well be the fastest--if not the only--way out of the cuffs.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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