[They mean this as a joke, too, but another ripple of emotion - WARM/SAFE/SAFE/HAPPY - drifts over them enough for them to flinch. Ugh okay, no joking about that. It's hard to deny the possibility of alien intelligence when that alien is slipping metaphorical fingers into their brain ew ew ew.]
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[They mean this as a joke, too, but another ripple of emotion - WARM/SAFE/SAFE/HAPPY - drifts over them enough for them to flinch. Ugh okay, no joking about that. It's hard to deny the possibility of alien intelligence when that alien is slipping metaphorical fingers into their brain ew ew ew.]