[ It watches as the human moves its host so deliberately, tail slowly swiping from side to side, tense and angry but confused through everything else. The other humans here have been feeding it; why would they give it this? This meal it can't eat? It can't understand, a creature meant for adaptation and finding little about this situation that it can learn from.
.....But there is always something to learn. The man who smells wrong is approaching, slow and careful, and the creature stares up at him, angry clicks and chitters coming to silence for a few lingering moments. Despite everything, it's curious, driven by that instinctual need to take in and absorb all the stimuli it can.
And so it stops its crawl, neither approaching nor backing away. Not for a long moment, because this human is unlike any others it's encountered so far and it's staring, staring..... lifting its head a bit more as though transfixed — childlike and alien in its lack of understanding. ]
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.....But there is always something to learn. The man who smells wrong is approaching, slow and careful, and the creature stares up at him, angry clicks and chitters coming to silence for a few lingering moments. Despite everything, it's curious, driven by that instinctual need to take in and absorb all the stimuli it can.
And so it stops its crawl, neither approaching nor backing away. Not for a long moment, because this human is unlike any others it's encountered so far and it's staring, staring..... lifting its head a bit more as though transfixed — childlike and alien in its lack of understanding. ]