cinnabar.

[nonbelligerent]

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[globs]

You didn't answer my question.

[ glaring at him over their shoulder. ]

[nonbelligerent]

You might not realize this, Cinnabar, but people don't usually need a particular reason to talk to someone.

[globs]

I'm not the kind of person people just talk to.

[nonbelligerent]

It's true you have poor people skills, but I've met worse.

[globs]

[ even though they just said it themself, having him tell them they have poor people skills makes their shoulders jerk a little, and they hang their head. ]

... I'm disgusting. I'm not fun to be around, and I make everything dirty just by existing... I'm weak, and I can't protect anyone. Don't kid yourself.

[nonbelligerent]

You haven't nearly killed me or threatened to.

[globs]

[ ok that's weird enough that it snaps them out of it somewhat. ]

... Does that happen to you a lot?

[nonbelligerent]

Not all the time, but it's not unusual either.

[globs]

What kind of work do you do where people are trying to kill you? You're way too gentle to be a fighter.

[ this is Cinnabar's impression, anyway. They will probably realize that was a little nicer of an admission than they'd intended to make in about 5 seconds. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[...]

I feel like a part of me should be offended, but thank you.

[globs]

I wasn't trying to compliment you...

[ b-baka ]

You're not going to tell me, are you?

[nonbelligerent]

It's not my work. More of a society thing.

[globs]

... Your people are all violent like that?

[ they seem rather shocked by the idea. Shess is so nice! ]

[nonbelligerent]

Unfortunately.

[shess is a very bad representative of his race.]

[globs]

...

[ they go quiet, pondering. In a world full of poison, surrounded by violent and aggressive people... ]

... It must be hard.

[nonbelligerent]

It's what I'm used to.

[globs]

In other words, it is.

[nonbelligerent]

[he shrugs.]

The idea of another lifestyle is as foreign to me as being surrounded by others is to you.

[globs]

It doesn't seem that way. You're doing fine here. Everyone likes you.

[nonbelligerent]

I like humans, and I appreciate many things about their way of life.

But I certainly don't see myself as one of them.

[globs]

... What are you, anyway?

[ he never answered before. ]

[nonbelligerent]

Sura.

he definitely told them that before didn't he... SIGH

[globs]

And "Sura" are different from humans because they're immune to poison and live a long time...?

pats

[nonbelligerent]

Not quite. We're fundamentally different from humans in many ways.

[globs]

You look like them, though.