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Roving the Galaxy [period 04 - week 02]

"Good afternoon. The Doctor isn't able to be here today." There was a definite note of disapproval in her voice. "So I've stepped in to take your class. It appears as if you were going to be speaking with friendly aliens this week, and we'll continue with that. He didn't specify which aliens, so I've chosen ones that you will hopefully enjoy."

Harriet leaned against a convenient table. "The question of whether an alien is a friendly one or not can be difficult. Often those who seem to have the best interests of the planet at heart turn out, in fact, to value nothing but their own arrogance." She shook her head. "You don't have to worry about the ones you're going to meet today, though your conversations will be on their terms."

She waved them through a door and into a lush green forest. "Off you go, enjoy yourselves. I'll be here if you need me."

[~~plz wait for~~ And we have OCD]

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It was with a wariness he wouldn't even admit to himself that Ender entered the forest. Somehow, he expected ghosts, or pointing fingers; the giant spines of a chest rising up above the foilage, or something else straight out of his dreams.

He went anyway, brushing away leaves and twigs as he slipped carefully into the forest.

A small golden head poked out of a bush and huge golden eyes stared at him. "Yeek?"

He'd been expecting it, but the sudden appearance did startle Ender just a little: of everything he might have expected, this had emphatically not been it. "Ho," he said, when the surprise had passed and he found himself fit to observe the alien in full.

Big gold eyes blinked, regarding him curiously, then with a quick dash, the fuzzy alien left the bush, peering up at him shyly. "Yeek," he said, imitating Ender's tone.

It took him a moment to decide on his next move, but soon Ender was hunching down slightly, quietly extending a finger towards the creature, squashing down on hints of paranoia that threatened to crawl up into his head.

He didn't want to be that person anymore, and so he tried.

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"Yeek," he said solemnly and came closer, reaching out to try and grasp Ender's fingers with both hands.

Surpressing the quiet tensing of his muscles, Ender didn't move his hand, cracking a little smile for the creature. "Ho," he repeated, watching carefully.

The smile made his yeek much more confident as he grasped Ender's fingers and gave his hands a little shake.

It felt like an odd kind of reenactment of old protocol; he shook the alien's hand once in return, carefully. "Can you understand me when I talk?"

"Yeek!" he said, nodding. It made things a lot less scary, that was certain.

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