There is also in the bar a very big blue alien boy, with a mass of unplaited hair laying bone-straight down his back, as he converses with the bar, getting various samples of beads and braid cuffs and feathers.
Mostly, he's interested in the beads, since he has quite enough feathers in his possession already, but he's holding a few of them up to the still-braided locks that lay on his cheek, and examining the results with interest.
At some point during her meditation, a teenaged boy stops and eyes her worriedly. She's okay, right? He doesn't really know much about the specifics of pregnancy. Expecting moms are supposed to do that weird breathing thing when they're having contractions, right? So does this mean she's having contractions?
(Naturally, it doesn't occur to him that spending so much time around dead people could have possibly had any odd effects on his knowledge of living people.)
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Mostly, he's interested in the beads, since he has quite enough feathers in his possession already, but he's holding a few of them up to the still-braided locks that lay on his cheek, and examining the results with interest.
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"That does not look comfortable in your condition."
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Charlie sits quietly and begins to pace his breathing to match hers.
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...That mantra carries a lot more weight when one's ribcage isn't being kicked from the inside.
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He waits about six minutes before touching her knee.
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(Naturally, it doesn't occur to him that spending so much time around dead people could have possibly had any odd effects on his knowledge of living people.)
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LOOK AT HOW EARNEST HE IS.
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Gordon knows the latter option all too well.
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"Sorry, did I wake you up when I left?"
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Milliways time and their world have never had a very consistent relationship.
"Am I interrupting?"
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