If that exclamation back was Peridot's reply to the loud human behind her, or her doing more yelling at the unfortunate barista, well, that was anybody's best guess. Maybe she was just yelling into the void at this point.
She kind of felt as though she was yelling into the void.
She pulled out her badge and walked to the front of the line.
"What's the problem?" she asked holding up her badge and to the barista and the... green triangle thing. "And if so help me if someone needs an explanation, there's a thing called wikipedia."
Wikipedia was more useful if you could read the language. Which Peridot was making impressive strides on! Buuuut she still needed a little bit of work.
Besides, there probably wasn't an entry that one could get to by searching 'that thing where humans put things into their mouths and then those things disappear.'
"I simply want to know," Peridot said, a little more reasonably now that there was what appeared to be some manner of human authority getting involved, "what all of these humans are doing. And why. And how it works."
They certainly weren't doing it anymore, granted, because everyone had finished their coffee a good hour and a half ago. But still.
The barista just made a sad whimpering sound. They weren't working part time at minimum wage for this.
Hannibal didn't generally stop at the Perk, but it was difficult to miss the line forming, and he was insatiably curious.
He came in just in time to catch the end of the altercation, with the...small green being...slinking to the side.
She was definitely curious. In both senses of the word, it appeared. "People tend to get annoyed when you come between them and their caffeine," he observed.
"Which could have been avoided if somebody had simply answered my questions," Peridot replied, reasonably, before looking back at... ah. Another human. There really wasn't a shortage of those about. "I don't believe they were unreasonable."
The questions themselves really weren't!
... There had just been a lot of them. Peridot's scale of time was maybe just a tiny bit skewed, compared to that of the human race.
"That depends on what they were," Hannibal answered, equally reasonable. "It's entirely possible the baristas," he gestured at the people behind the counter, "may not know the answers, unless they have a direct bearing on their job."
They had functions that didn't include questions about tea chemistry, Peridot.
Peridot frowned a little bit. That reasoning actually made sense enough to her. After all, she had a very specific set of skills herself, as a technician and a kindergartener. Perhaps asking these humans about the purpose of the organic materials that they were preparing was something like asking a Pearl about... basically anything.
"I suppose I understand that," she said, slowly. "Would they know why people are putting those things into their mouths?"
Something about frustration being fatal, had mostly been her takeaway from the last conversation she'd had.
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"Jesus fucking christ! What's the effing hold up?"
Peridot was getting between Vic and her precious cup of coffee.
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If that exclamation back was Peridot's reply to the loud human behind her, or her doing more yelling at the unfortunate barista, well, that was anybody's best guess. Maybe she was just yelling into the void at this point.
She kind of felt as though she was yelling into the void.
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She pulled out her badge and walked to the front of the line.
"What's the problem?" she asked holding up her badge and to the barista and the... green triangle thing. "And if so help me if someone needs an explanation, there's a thing called wikipedia."
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Besides, there probably wasn't an entry that one could get to by searching 'that thing where humans put things into their mouths and then those things disappear.'
"I simply want to know," Peridot said, a little more reasonably now that there was what appeared to be some manner of human authority getting involved, "what all of these humans are doing. And why. And how it works."
They certainly weren't doing it anymore, granted, because everyone had finished their coffee a good hour and a half ago. But still.
The barista just made a sad whimpering sound. They weren't working part time at minimum wage for this.
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He came in just in time to catch the end of the altercation, with the...small green being...slinking to the side.
She was definitely curious. In both senses of the word, it appeared. "People tend to get annoyed when you come between them and their caffeine," he observed.
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The questions themselves really weren't!
... There had just been a lot of them. Peridot's scale of time was maybe just a tiny bit skewed, compared to that of the human race.
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They had functions that didn't include questions about tea chemistry, Peridot.
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"I suppose I understand that," she said, slowly. "Would they know why people are putting those things into their mouths?"
Something about frustration being fatal, had mostly been her takeaway from the last conversation she'd had.
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