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There is one visit during the day from a lady down the street who has made the girls a casserole, on the grounds that it can be hard to remember to eat when bereaved. Bella thanks her sincerely, sniffles a little, and sends her on her way. The casserole is shared around for lunch. Bella asks Ax what Andalites eat, and when she finds out, she locates a bag of grass clippings in the backyard that he pronounces acceptable. She also asks him how he eats them. By way of illustration, he steps both forehooves into the bag of clippings.
Night falls.
They can all go to the Seattle zoo and acquire everything they can get their hands on.
aeskhyne
He snorts.
"And I could explain me to the alien, but I don't see why he'd give a fuck. What's a duel? If he wants to beat me up every time I piss him off, I can work with that. As long as he doesn't want to fuck me too."
"And I could explain me to the alien, but I don't see why he'd give a fuck. What's a duel? If he wants to beat me up every time I piss him off, I can work with that. As long as he doesn't want to fuck me too."
"I'm not confident, but I have the impression that the general Andalite dueling setup ends with somebody dead or permanently maimed," says Bella.
Bella drops her forehead into her hand. "So, I go tell him that you're going to be insulting him whenever you like and he is to ignore it and see if I can still get a 'yes Princess' to that, is that where we are, here?"
aeskhyne
Trouble sighs. "I'll talk to him if you want. I just don't promise he's gonna come out of it any happier than he would if you did that."
"I don't know how to fix this, but that doesn't mean I can't make it worse by saying everything that pops into my head."
"Or something. I don't allow myself the luxury of hurting any feelings that happen to wander by on the grounds of whim."
"You met a friendly, helpful, stranded, frightened alien who had just discovered that his brother was dead and placed himself under the protection of someone who's supposedly your friend, and then you upset him, and he politely told you that the thing you said upset him, and I have seen no indication that you give a fraction of a shit. You aren't curious what constitutes an insult to an Andalite so you can avoid any portion of the possible ways to ruin his day, you haven't apologized or given any noticeable thought to what apologizing would look like, I don't think you're even acting like this on the grounds that it offends you that Ax is racist against Yeerks. I don't think there is a way to be in the wrong in this situation that you haven't at least flirted with except that I believe that you didn't intentionally set out to hurt his feelings, which means precious little when you demonstrate no interest in the fact that they exist. And I'm still probably going to have to tell Ax to suck it up even though his worst crime here is not liking a species that has been fighting his people since before he was born, since he has done me the great courtesy of presenting leverage for me to apply and you haven't. And that's how I get to reward him, I guess, I get to tell him that on this particular team of humans sometimes people are going to trespass on his sacred values and that's his problem."