"Oh, no," Roan insisted. "Nooooo Novae." Teaching an alien to curse was even worse somehow in his mind than letting xem in on human anatomical knowledge--and though the Academy professors would disagree with his priorities, they couldn't contest the fact that curse words were not particularly helpful for translation purposes. "Novae...no Uala. Oh!" He brought a hand up to snap his fingers. "Novae kenah!"
He grinned widely, satisfied that he'd conquered another word, translating it -flawlessly-. Humans, after all, had multiple words for the same thing. Why wouldn't an alien?
Although registering the fact that xe was trying to make him more comfortable, Roan was as ignorant of Uala's discomfort as he was fascinated by the display on the opposite side of the table. The needles only stung for a moment, tiny little things that pricked. Not even close to a blip for a man used to brawling. Probably wouldn't bleed long when they came out, if at all. It did, however, make his forehead scrunch. When Uala had used the needles before, had it hurt even a little? It hadn't seemed to, but then, they'd been interrupted and perhaps he'd missed xyr indication of pain.
The band around his skin pinched with the expression and so he let it go, trying to relax, hoping it would be over as soon as Uala had xyr pictures. But there seemed to be ever so many more needles than he'd expected, more than one for some portions of his body, and his eyebrows climbed despite himself. "Are you telling me you're almost done? I think you have quite a lot on the scans by now."
He turned his head to watch Uala as his digestive tract lit up on the screen. Xe was turning intriguing colors now, flitting between what he thought must be normal, to excited, to...embarassed?...and back again. He hummed in the back of his throat. Excitement, he could understand. Xe seemed to be the equivalent of a scientist--studying the alien, after all--and what scientist wouldn't be excited about new information? But the other hue...he frowned. Why would that be back?
Tentacles tapping about his hips clued him in on the dilemma. "Need more places?" Xe didn't want to invade his personal space again. He could help with that, didn't particular want xem to start prodding needles toward his genitals by mistake at any rate.
Patting a strangely sheathed tentacle with the tips of his fingers to reassure xem, Roan smiled. With no further warned he moved appendages not yet poked with sensors while trying not to disrupt the ones that were already in place, gripping one pants leg with the toes of the opposite foot and tugging helpfully upward until the fabric bunched over one knee. He repeated it on the other leg and nodded to Uala, wincing only slightly as the needle in his shoulder jostled about. Oops. Even a human doctor would scold him for that. Still, he gestured with his index fingers toward his legs and asked, "Okay?"
It maybe didn't help as much as he thought it would, given xe had pulled away to cover xyr face in apparent despair of him, and the almost neon shade of green infusing xyr body. "Sorry," he mumbled. "I was just trying to help." His stomach chose that moment to remind him it was there, seeming to echo his words as it grumbled far too loudly in the alien room.
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