"Someone from my past resurfaced at an inconvenient time."

"This would happen as soon as I make a friend."

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💭 I assume she meant tasty... Unless she loses her sense of taste often? Who knows with aliens. Just curious, did you ever meet an alien called Nezurac? He was very tall. Almost 20 feet.

Thanks for talking to me for so long. I owe you a nice lunch! I'm Hannah, in case I forgot to introduce myself. [Despite how long they'd been talking, Hannah suddenly seemed much more friendly and animated, and gave Valerie a big smile.] I have, like, a bazillion questions for you!

I'm not sure if I'd take the dragon over the nightmare aliens.

And your name, it was Valerie?

We... Is this how you make friends?

|| I don't think I'd get along with the majority of my muses tbh

[Hannah slid the gold bracelet off of her wrist, and after a slight hesitation, offered it back.] Here. It's yours.

I meant it as one!

... you're quite an interesting person. I don't know if I've met someone like you before.

The scars don't care if the violence was a symptom.

People will look for excuses to be violent if they think they can get away with it, or if they won't suffer any consequences.

I'm not prone to physical violence and that doesn't make me harmless.

I said the same thing before I knew better.

If they're going to hurt you, wouldn't you defend yourself?

I'm not following your implication that violence is bad manners. Why do you think that?

Everyone has a limit to what they will tolerate before they will engage in violence.

We were roommates.

The minds of humans are a terrible thing to be constantly subjected to.

[Her reaction confused Hannah, who took another sip of her coffee.] Are you a violent person? You don't seem one. But even a worm may turn.

Haven't you ever had any violence threatened toward you because of it?

An acquaintance. An irritating one.

Lian calls me that sometimes...

It's ... not every day someone so casually tells me they're an alien. I think you're being sincere, which is also surprising.

[Hannah sighed long-sufferingly and then leaned down and scooped out a cupfull of coffee, then proceeded to sip it.] The nice thing about our strange conversation is that the coffee is a good temperature now.

|| doing a storyline, the usual freeform stuff, centering around Hannah, @triumphthefire.bsky.social, @triumphtheryder.bsky.social so if Ryder follows you it's cuz you're mutuals with Hannah

You can have some of it... Just not all of it.

No. Hannah is a common name with roots dating back to like, a long time ago.

... I don't want you to drink the coffee. If you die from it then I risk an interstellar war.

I imagined aliens to be way more different than humans.

|| ❤️ Maya, one of my fave writers

For example.

There are many aliens that appear like humans.

I've met a few hybrids. I don't make it a point to go and meet other aliens.

If you die, who do I tell?

[The clap didn't make her jump. It did make her sigh.] I know the sound...

Xenomorphs? You've seen them? [Just the thought of them made her uneasy. Her Mind Radar would tell her if any were nearby, and yet she still glanced around, just in case.]

Will you die if you ingest more than 400 miligrams of caffeine? This bucket has 1.9 million.

Call it a hunch. They're terrifying creatures. They have long tails, acid blood, two mouths, a long head, sharp claws... have you heard of them?

Many burnt what now.

... there is a difference between saying 'I am not human' and 'I am not afraid to die'. How could I have known that you weren't human until I asked? You look human. You talk human. The only aliens I've met were ontologically evil monsters.

Then you might survive.

[quizzically] you are human? Right?

Crutchie it is. Do people make fun of your name?