[Hearing her refer to him as 'human' as if she were something else was unnerving, but not unexpected. After all, she pretty obviously wasn't human. But that didn't necessarily mean she was Taheen, either.
And Taheen weren't animal-like for their entire bodies, right? Just from the shoulders up.
As caught up in his thoughts as he was, he almost missed the jacket being tossed, but he nonetheless got his hands up in time to swipe the article of clothing neatly from the air.]
Oh...well, I don't want to take it from you. Aren't you cold? [Weren't reptiles cold-blooded? Was that racist? Speciesist?] And he's not a kid. He's a billy bumbler. Full grown.
["'Rown! Oy!" The bumbler's voice was almost a bark, the little beast stretching his long neck out as far as it would go to show just how grown he was.]
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And Taheen weren't animal-like for their entire bodies, right? Just from the shoulders up.
As caught up in his thoughts as he was, he almost missed the jacket being tossed, but he nonetheless got his hands up in time to swipe the article of clothing neatly from the air.]
Oh...well, I don't want to take it from you. Aren't you cold? [Weren't reptiles cold-blooded? Was that racist? Speciesist?] And he's not a kid. He's a billy bumbler. Full grown.
["'Rown! Oy!" The bumbler's voice was almost a bark, the little beast stretching his long neck out as far as it would go to show just how grown he was.]