[In return for her little speech, Fiona gets something barely more
than silence. She stares for a moment, two, waiting for more. It doesn't
come.] I dunno...? [She leans forward a little bit, as
though that will help her understand. Or maybe it will inspire her to begin
to be able to explain all the things wrong with what he just said. The
missing beats in the song they were dancing to, the steps missing from the
stairs up the rover, all of them are clues. He is, again, more alien than
he seems.]
Do I gotta... expect something? [Is that how it works, out on the
far planet of his home?]
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[In return for her little speech, Fiona gets something barely more than silence. She stares for a moment, two, waiting for more. It doesn't come.] I dunno...? [She leans forward a little bit, as though that will help her understand. Or maybe it will inspire her to begin to be able to explain all the things wrong with what he just said. The missing beats in the song they were dancing to, the steps missing from the stairs up the rover, all of them are clues. He is, again, more alien than he seems.]
Do I gotta... expect something? [Is that how it works, out on the far planet of his home?]