Is what he says instead of letting that anxiety spill out of anything except his unconscious body language. How jerky his hand on his hip is now, how edgy his smile. He takes in the roil of something beneath Cassius' shell as something intriguing, not something terrifying the way any other human might, and tries not to gnaw a worse raw hole in the lining of his cheek than he already has. Steel teeth are a bit unforgiving that way.
"They've made you quite the conversationalist, at least. I'll have to thank them for that." A sharp little inhale, hand shaking itself out a bit, as if burned. As if to discard the slight quake of his fingers at the idea of this fucking thing crawling around his ship, doing - god knows what. He steels himself instead, offers Cassius a hand to shake. Maybe he'll shake it, maybe he won't. Unimportant either way. "Well-met, Cassius. You'll have to tell me all about them. Would you like to come somewhere more comfortable with me? I'll get you set up with a room, if you'd like. A space of your own."
With a lock on the door. The outside, not the inside.
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Is what he says instead of letting that anxiety spill out of anything except his unconscious body language. How jerky his hand on his hip is now, how edgy his smile. He takes in the roil of something beneath Cassius' shell as something intriguing, not something terrifying the way any other human might, and tries not to gnaw a worse raw hole in the lining of his cheek than he already has. Steel teeth are a bit unforgiving that way.
"They've made you quite the conversationalist, at least. I'll have to thank them for that." A sharp little inhale, hand shaking itself out a bit, as if burned. As if to discard the slight quake of his fingers at the idea of this fucking thing crawling around his ship, doing - god knows what. He steels himself instead, offers Cassius a hand to shake. Maybe he'll shake it, maybe he won't. Unimportant either way. "Well-met, Cassius. You'll have to tell me all about them. Would you like to come somewhere more comfortable with me? I'll get you set up with a room, if you'd like. A space of your own."
With a lock on the door. The outside, not the inside.