[Evan stares for a moment, and then looks down and flushes. But then, it's not shame exactly that suffuses him, but a kind of gratitude. Alright, so people who were on the Zera-12 mission might understand... Laedo in particular.]
They were... there were six of them, and they grew a lot while I was there, I mean, they stared out little more than an armful and by the time I left I couldn't easily pick any of them up except Sequoia. At first they were really clingy, I think they... they missed their mother. [Evan grimaces. The loss of the adult khipri is a worry still, even with his charges more grown.]
They really liked warmth, which is why I was send, really... any time I put the heat on they'd all pile in and make it impossible to move. [He chuckles, sweet and sheepish.] And they loved being talked to, even if they couldn't talk themselves.
Oh, I took a leaf out of your book, actually. [That sheepishness peaks, and he laughs.] I tried singing to them. Turns out I'm not much of, er, a singer.
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Date: 2016-12-04 12:09 am (UTC)They were... there were six of them, and they grew a lot while I was there, I mean, they stared out little more than an armful and by the time I left I couldn't easily pick any of them up except Sequoia. At first they were really clingy, I think they... they missed their mother. [Evan grimaces. The loss of the adult khipri is a worry still, even with his charges more grown.]
They really liked warmth, which is why I was send, really... any time I put the heat on they'd all pile in and make it impossible to move. [He chuckles, sweet and sheepish.] And they loved being talked to, even if they couldn't talk themselves.
Oh, I took a leaf out of your book, actually. [That sheepishness peaks, and he laughs.] I tried singing to them. Turns out I'm not much of, er, a singer.