Sadde is home; it's a Friday evening, his shift is over, and there's no school. He's reading a book, lying on his bed in his small-but-tidy apartment.
He is also quite naked, because it's his place and why not?
"Oh, that's fair. So, you're like, half Ceirene, a quarter tail Aluvai, a quarter ear Aluvai?"
He laughs. "Jungle-dweller and surface-dweller, please. And it's not the ears, everyone has the ears, it's the eyes. The inner surface of the planet is very dark. The jungle gets more light because the sun shines in from the edge."
"Right! Sorry. That's what I meant. Got the face parts confused." She tilts her head, looking at him. "You know, if someone had asked me this a few weeks ago I would probably not have thought 'long ears, claws, tail, and slit-pupiled eyes' would be particularly attractive, and yet here we are."
"It would be disheartening if we went to all this trouble only for you to say 'get away from me, beast-man'."
"This might be something that does not translate well, and I am being utterly shameless. 'Beast' need not have a negative meaning."
"Mm, 'beast' can mean something like raw and rough and wild and untamed, and these are not always undesirable characteristics."
"I see what you mean, I think." (He's blushing slightly. He probably sees what she means.)
"You're not bothering me at all," he assures her. "But if you want to talk about yourself, that's good too."
"That's a bit broad," she laughs. "Um, I have a weird name for human standards, I'm seventeen, I have powers but am not a cape—thank you for not telling people about that, by the way."
"It'd be considered personal, yeah, but my reason's pretty innocuous. I want to make sure I got control down before actually going out in situations where both I and other people could be harmed by my power."
"I conjure things, and the method of conjuration is pretty fiddly in a way I can't really explain, I've been practicing for years and only really got it down a few months ago."