[She sends him a rare spark of amusement like seeing the flash of a sardonic, lopsided smile.]
:Hah. I'm as human as you are. Or I was.:
[It's a line she uses when meeting people, sometimes, but it has a particular little twist of irony here that she accentuates by turning a moment of clear attention to the setae in the pads of his fingers. There's a lot more going on with whatever's happened to Miguel than she can quickly pick up on, it's quite systematic and under a certain degree of tension and instability that is ve-ry interesting - but certainly he's still markedly more human than she is by now. A human mind can't survive as it is outside of a human brain, after all.]
:I want to know more about this and about whatever it is you're wearing. I'm not saying I'm not impressed, I am saying there are certainly a lot of choices made. But it's far enough outside my experience that you'd have me saying 'What?' every two seconds.:
[This is as close as she's going to get to saying she won't pry and just read his mind about all of it! Need is sitting on her curiosity; she can tell that she could come to like Miguel quite easily, his voice can be rather soft when he's not raising it. She can't afford that right now.]
:All right, you can let go. I can talk to you by now without contact, if you're close by.:
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:Hah. I'm as human as you are. Or I was.:
[It's a line she uses when meeting people, sometimes, but it has a particular little twist of irony here that she accentuates by turning a moment of clear attention to the setae in the pads of his fingers. There's a lot more going on with whatever's happened to Miguel than she can quickly pick up on, it's quite systematic and under a certain degree of tension and instability that is ve-ry interesting - but certainly he's still markedly more human than she is by now. A human mind can't survive as it is outside of a human brain, after all.]
:I want to know more about this and about whatever it is you're wearing. I'm not saying I'm not impressed, I am saying there are certainly a lot of choices made. But it's far enough outside my experience that you'd have me saying 'What?' every two seconds.:
[This is as close as she's going to get to saying she won't pry and just read his mind about all of it! Need is sitting on her curiosity; she can tell that she could come to like Miguel quite easily, his voice can be rather soft when he's not raising it. She can't afford that right now.]
:All right, you can let go. I can talk to you by now without contact, if you're close by.: