[Decades of traipsing around the galaxy on imperial nonsense business, and she's never had to deal with this before. It is not cute, she tells Natasha. He's obviously trying to manipulate me.
And he'd be effective at it, under normal circumstances. She can feel her host's cheeks getting warmer, pulse quickening in spite of the Yeerk's incredulity. Through human eyes, she's all too aware that he's very attractive, and charming- and clearly confident of both.
Good grief, she's going to have to play along. She'll just have to enjoy herself when she yanks the rug out from under him.]
Oh- well- I don't know, but I'm sure it'd make his day to meet a real cosmonaut!
[Her smile is more demure, trying to play it cool and also not really resisting his teasing. She lets her expression brighten when he agrees. Why not? Natasha is just pleased she can help him (and, obviously, get to talk to him some more).]
Even better if he gets to go wild 'speculating' about how alien biology might work. [Not even a lie, that. Issek just has a lot more practical experience with aliens than she's implying. Humans included!] Much more fun than writing up reports about enzyme activation and so on.
[She pauses, quirks a sheepish smile.] I should probably remember to introduce myself before I set you up to chat with other people, shouldn't I? Sorry about that- I'm Natasha.
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telrim's just annoyed he's good at playing all his cards
nonsensebusiness, and she's never had to deal with this before. It is not cute, she tells Natasha. He's obviously trying to manipulate me.And he'd be effective at it, under normal circumstances. She can feel her host's cheeks getting warmer, pulse quickening in spite of the Yeerk's incredulity. Through human eyes, she's all too aware that he's very attractive, and charming- and clearly confident of both.
Good grief, she's going to have to play along. She'll just have to enjoy herself when she yanks the rug out from under him.]
Oh- well- I don't know, but I'm sure it'd make his day to meet a real cosmonaut!
[Her smile is more demure, trying to play it cool and also not really resisting his teasing. She lets her expression brighten when he agrees. Why not? Natasha is just pleased she can help him (and, obviously, get to talk to him some more).]
Even better if he gets to go wild 'speculating' about how alien biology might work. [Not even a lie, that. Issek just has a lot more practical experience with aliens than she's implying. Humans included!] Much more fun than writing up reports about enzyme activation and so on.
[She pauses, quirks a sheepish smile.] I should probably remember to introduce myself before I set you up to chat with other people, shouldn't I? Sorry about that- I'm Natasha.