[Foster stops, though only nominally because of the warning. It's more because of the term of address.
'Homeboy' is the kind of word that you can go a year or more without hearing and you don't think anything of it until you hear it again. His eyes turn to Guzma for the first time since he spotted Golisopod, studying him while maintaining eye contact.]
You shouldn't have warned me.
[It's cool, but with a loaded tone to it--disappointment and criticism even each other out into a practised neutrality. He's obviously already lost his interest in Guzma, though. Hhis gaze wanders, briefly, to Ariados, looking over her purple and yellow legs, her black and red body, her sharp eyes and gleaming horn and mandibles.
And then to Golisopod.
There his attention lingers.]
It's real.
[Whatever laden weight was in his first sentence is totally gone. This isn't wonder, or disbelief. It's factual. He doesn't know... how he feels about that. Not that he would feel anything from it. But he's more aware of it right now: the air-filled, empty space where a reaction should be.]
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'Homeboy' is the kind of word that you can go a year or more without hearing and you don't think anything of it until you hear it again. His eyes turn to Guzma for the first time since he spotted Golisopod, studying him while maintaining eye contact.]
You shouldn't have warned me.
[It's cool, but with a loaded tone to it--disappointment and criticism even each other out into a practised neutrality. He's obviously already lost his interest in Guzma, though. Hhis gaze wanders, briefly, to Ariados, looking over her purple and yellow legs, her black and red body, her sharp eyes and gleaming horn and mandibles.
And then to Golisopod.
There his attention lingers.]
It's real.
[Whatever laden weight was in his first sentence is totally gone. This isn't wonder, or disbelief. It's factual. He doesn't know... how he feels about that. Not that he would feel anything from it. But he's more aware of it right now: the air-filled, empty space where a reaction should be.]