( Collette protests to the being picked up, mostly because now she feels like some sort of weird birdy luggage. )
< Woah! Hey now, that's just handsy! >
( She makes herself laugh, not struggling against him because she knows his augmentations and it'd feel strangely worse to have him try to cart her off as a girl. )
< No, it wasn't. It's also not that fair to make crazy assumptions about people! So I'm sorry, and you totally owe me an apology too. >
( She cranes her head enough to eye him with one impassive raptor eye. It's always a fierce regard, because that's inherently part of the bird. )
< I don't take drugs. Except when I need to, and those are prescribed by medical doctors after extremely bothersome procedures like spinal taps. Oh man, those things can hurt! >
( She doesn't have to force the lightness in tone that comes after her serious tone for her announcement of what she doesn't do. She does reach out with her beak to pull at whatever of his is in reach. Tug tug. Is he paying attention and not just hearing what he thinks he's afraid to hear? )
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< Woah! Hey now, that's just handsy! >
( She makes herself laugh, not struggling against him because she knows his augmentations and it'd feel strangely worse to have him try to cart her off as a girl. )
< No, it wasn't. It's also not that fair to make crazy assumptions about people! So I'm sorry, and you totally owe me an apology too. >
( She cranes her head enough to eye him with one impassive raptor eye. It's always a fierce regard, because that's inherently part of the bird. )
< I don't take drugs. Except when I need to, and those are prescribed by medical doctors after extremely bothersome procedures like spinal taps. Oh man, those things can hurt! >
( She doesn't have to force the lightness in tone that comes after her serious tone for her announcement of what she doesn't do. She does reach out with her beak to pull at whatever of his is in reach. Tug tug. Is he paying attention and not just hearing what he thinks he's afraid to hear? )