[ .......... tubes .................... but that's not the only thing that makes 2B seem like she's internally short-circuiting. the child hugs her leg. she makes the most awkward lift of her arms, her hands, and looks down briefly at this— the gesture of physically affection shared between three complete strangers. there is . . . something there, perhaps the urge to lower her hand without looking like she's afraid of an infant to pat the child's head the way she would pod's (if it had a "head", but she pretends it does). she doesn't get the chance to. the child runs off before she could gather enough courage to do something way out of her league.
she's missed the window, and has her hands slowly falling back to her sides. she tries not to make it look like it was something to actually fuss over. they were having a serious, adult conversation. there were so many humans now. if she had that hidden, muted longing within her to be closer to them, she is now. there's no actual need for intimacy.
(narrator: she was wrong.) ]
. . . How do you know.
[ a little flat on the questioning intonation, but she's following. she's had a certain "change", definitely. just by her arrival as a squid, and the immediate aftermath until she was working at full capacity . . . she was strangely compromised. for starters, she shouldn't be a squid. it's a complete and total mindfuck starting right there. ]
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she's missed the window, and has her hands slowly falling back to her sides. she tries not to make it look like it was something to actually fuss over. they were having a serious, adult conversation. there were so many humans now. if she had that hidden, muted longing within her to be closer to them, she is now. there's no actual need for intimacy.
(narrator: she was wrong.) ]
. . . How do you know.
[ a little flat on the questioning intonation, but she's following. she's had a certain "change", definitely. just by her arrival as a squid, and the immediate aftermath until she was working at full capacity . . . she was strangely compromised. for starters, she shouldn't be a squid. it's a complete and total mindfuck starting right there. ]