Humans are Weird - Introduction
Stck’ck carefully burrowed his paws down through the fine mass of hairs that covered Human Friend Giovanni’s head. Stck’ck wriggled his claws thoughtfully, it seemed that there might be less hair density than there had been when they had first met. He should bring that up at their next social meal. Stck’ck glanced down at the readout on his datapad. The thermal coils in this area were showing the inexplicable wear, just as they suspected. He clicked his chelicerae together and went to pull up the long term thermal flow data, but the screen did not respond for several long moments and Stck’ck gave an annoyed click before prodding Human Friend Giovanni’s scalp with a paw. The soft material over him lifted and let in a wash of cold air.
“What’cha need Sticks?” Human Friend Giovanni called out, a bit too loudly in the dense air.
“I need to be closer to the main data signal,” Stck’ck called out. “The thermal coils are very much over working but I can’t see a pattern in the pause.”
“Back to the signal! Gotcha!” Human Friend Giovanni and Stck’ck’s perch swayed as the human angled towards the corner of the sublevel where the data signal was known to be strongest.
Human Friend Giovanni dropped his cranial covering, his hat, back to its original position and Stck’ck pushed it back up to a comfortable height that gave him room to stand but didn’t let the cold air in. They reached the corner as indicated by his datapad chirping happily as it picked up the signal. Stck’ck quickly downloaded the needed data. However before he could finalize it he felt Human Friend Giovanni turn and rumble out a greeting to what must be another approaching human.
Stck’ck heaved a sigh of just barely warmed air through his lung and pressed one paw over his main eyes. Under his paws he felt the flexible skin on Human Friend Giovanni’s face wrinkle with a delighted smile. It must be a human who had not seen the performance yet. His perch swayed as Human Friend Giovanni crouched. From experience (and from observing surveillance recordings after similar previous events) Stck’ck knew that Human Friend Giovanni was holding his hands out in front of him in what might be considered a semi-threatening posture towards the other human. Human Friend Giovanni spoke, his tones dramatically changed with both mischievous delight and what Stck’ck was told was a vocal impersonation of some famous human entertainer. Stck’ck braced himself for the cold and dutifully lifted one paw in greeting as was his part in this little charade. He carefully braced his datapad that was still downloading the data.
“Say hello to my little friend!”Human Friend Giovanni declared, sweeping the hat up and off his head, revealing Stck’ck to the startled and mildly uneasy looking human.
“Hello,” Stck’ck said waving his raised paw dutifully.
The other human’s look changed from perplexed to delighted and she, it looked kind of like the new nutritional lead, laughed. She raised her hand and waved at Stck’ck.
“Hello!” She said.
Stck’ck reached up and pulled down on the hat that was poised just above him losing all the precious heat with a tap of a paw at Human Friend Giovanni’s scalp. Human Friend Giovanni laughed and dropped the hat back down to its resting position and Stck’ck resumed perusing the data.
“What’cha need Sticks?” Human Friend Giovanni called out, a bit too loudly in the dense air.
“I need to be closer to the main data signal,” Stck’ck called out. “The thermal coils are very much over working but I can’t see a pattern in the pause.”
“Back to the signal! Gotcha!” Human Friend Giovanni and Stck’ck’s perch swayed as the human angled towards the corner of the sublevel where the data signal was known to be strongest.
Human Friend Giovanni dropped his cranial covering, his hat, back to its original position and Stck’ck pushed it back up to a comfortable height that gave him room to stand but didn’t let the cold air in. They reached the corner as indicated by his datapad chirping happily as it picked up the signal. Stck’ck quickly downloaded the needed data. However before he could finalize it he felt Human Friend Giovanni turn and rumble out a greeting to what must be another approaching human.
Stck’ck heaved a sigh of just barely warmed air through his lung and pressed one paw over his main eyes. Under his paws he felt the flexible skin on Human Friend Giovanni’s face wrinkle with a delighted smile. It must be a human who had not seen the performance yet. His perch swayed as Human Friend Giovanni crouched. From experience (and from observing surveillance recordings after similar previous events) Stck’ck knew that Human Friend Giovanni was holding his hands out in front of him in what might be considered a semi-threatening posture towards the other human. Human Friend Giovanni spoke, his tones dramatically changed with both mischievous delight and what Stck’ck was told was a vocal impersonation of some famous human entertainer. Stck’ck braced himself for the cold and dutifully lifted one paw in greeting as was his part in this little charade. He carefully braced his datapad that was still downloading the data.
“Say hello to my little friend!”Human Friend Giovanni declared, sweeping the hat up and off his head, revealing Stck’ck to the startled and mildly uneasy looking human.
“Hello,” Stck’ck said waving his raised paw dutifully.
The other human’s look changed from perplexed to delighted and she, it looked kind of like the new nutritional lead, laughed. She raised her hand and waved at Stck’ck.
“Hello!” She said.
Stck’ck reached up and pulled down on the hat that was poised just above him losing all the precious heat with a tap of a paw at Human Friend Giovanni’s scalp. Human Friend Giovanni laughed and dropped the hat back down to its resting position and Stck’ck resumed perusing the data.
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