[It feels surprisingly intimate to him, talking to her when her back is almost against his chest and he has to lean forward just the smallest bit to watch her face. It seems like a funny thing to find feels close but - he likes it.
It's nice to have her full concentration too though, which he gets when she puts a step between them so she can face him and the look he gives her is calmly open, waiting. It's not as if he really cares about the ice cream or thinks its going to run away if they stop. And then she asks and -
ah.
His lips form it on an exhale but there's no sound to it and for just a second there's something wistful in the way his lips curve into a small smile afterward. Except its gone a second later and the smile's a little bit more full.]
Probably. [Modesty has its place and, honestly, if he pretends she hasn't heard of the first manned attempt to the edge of the solar system in what was classified as a historic mission tragedy or the pilot of said mission coming back with flying space lions and aliens over a year later - that wasn't modesty so much as assuming she lived under a rock with no wi-fi. Which he knew she didn't. One of his shoulders roll.] I'm a space pilot.
[Of a giant mechanical cognizant alien space robot lion that can form part of an even bigger giant alien space person... thing. But he leaves that part out just in case there's the smallest chance he really is going to get away without being recognized.]
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It's nice to have her full concentration too though, which he gets when she puts a step between them so she can face him and the look he gives her is calmly open, waiting. It's not as if he really cares about the ice cream or thinks its going to run away if they stop. And then she asks and -
ah.
His lips form it on an exhale but there's no sound to it and for just a second there's something wistful in the way his lips curve into a small smile afterward. Except its gone a second later and the smile's a little bit more full.]
Probably. [Modesty has its place and, honestly, if he pretends she hasn't heard of the first manned attempt to the edge of the solar system in what was classified as a historic mission tragedy or the pilot of said mission coming back with flying space lions and aliens over a year later - that wasn't modesty so much as assuming she lived under a rock with no wi-fi. Which he knew she didn't. One of his shoulders roll.] I'm a space pilot.
[Of a giant mechanical cognizant alien space robot lion that can form part of an even bigger giant alien space person... thing. But he leaves that part out just in case there's the smallest chance he really is going to get away without being recognized.]