[ Wait. Wait just one goddamn second, did whatever's out there just mentally coo at them? Like they're ducklings?! ]
Hello?
[ There's no way it can hear him -- that's ridiculous -- but if it wants to communicate then by fuck he's gonna communicate with it! After all, it's already seen them -- there's no point in trying to keep hiding. Best they can hope for is to make friends, and with any luck they won't end up in a cage back in this thing's house to be cooed at until they run out of air. ]
We, uh. We come in peace?
[ He's still terrified -- his mind was not designed to handle feeling anyone else's feeling, especially not at that scale! -- but it's okay, he thinks, if it knows he's afraid. It can't think they're a threat, and shouldn't know that they're not working at full capacity -- injured cute things get eaten, out in the world. ]
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Hello?
[ There's no way it can hear him -- that's ridiculous -- but if it wants to communicate then by fuck he's gonna communicate with it! After all, it's already seen them -- there's no point in trying to keep hiding. Best they can hope for is to make friends, and with any luck they won't end up in a cage back in this thing's house to be cooed at until they run out of air. ]
We, uh. We come in peace?
[ He's still terrified -- his mind was not designed to handle feeling anyone else's feeling, especially not at that scale! -- but it's okay, he thinks, if it knows he's afraid. It can't think they're a threat, and shouldn't know that they're not working at full capacity -- injured cute things get eaten, out in the world. ]