Sweet! Thanks!

Parked

She got there first and comes back out to meet him, waving and bouncing.

"You look so excited to experience shrimp colors," he grins.

“I am so excited to experience shrimp colors!!!”

If she doesn't stop him he'll pay for both admissions. "Now, probably you will need to talk to the staff if you want to control the shrimp and not just experience their colors, but you've got the things separated reliably, yes?"

“Yeah, it’s—I’m not sure how to describe it. Like sliding into a pilot’s chair without touching the buttons? But also the buttons do things on their own so you have to deliberately override them. I don’t think that metaphor worked. Oh—” she pulls out her phone and shows him a video of the ant jar. Caramelldansen is playing somewhere in the room and she’s making the ants dance to it.

"Oh, you perhaps should have a Youtube channel."

“I’m so going to have a YouTube channel!!!”

Handholding?

Handholding is an available service!

Excellent! She does not have much backlash yet but she has a little.

She read maps while she was waiting for him and she knows the way to the shrimps!

“Oh wow,” she breathes once they get there. She tilts her head as though this would have any effect on the shrimp’s perspective. “That’s—this is weirder than I was expecting,” she enthuses.

"Do tell!"

“Well, for one thing, they don’t just see more, different colors than we do, they see those colors differently? I’m not sure how to describe it exactly, but, like, when you or I see colors, if there’s a bunch of colors together, then the, the colorfulness, is visually obvious? It isn’t here. It’s, like, if I look for a particular color I can see it, and it’s not exactly that I don’t see any color I’m not specifically looking for, but the way the colors visually interact is totally different. Also,” she tilts her head again, “the…depth perception? Is doing a thing I’m not used to. I’m not sure what it is, though.”

"Do you think you could draw it?"

“Uh…I think, um, I will need to get better at drawing in order to do that.”

"Might be worth working on! Or like digital painting or something, I don't know what the right medium would be."

“Yeah but no, you’re right, I’ve gotta git gud. I can’t just not show people this stuff.”

"I look forward to seeing it. - you can't do that, can you, beam one sensorium to another target?"

“Uh—no, I don’t think so. And I did just try.”

"- on me? You should as a general rule warn me before trying stuff on me or you'll likely as not just backlash the both of us."

“What? No. There’s more than one shrimp in that tank.”

"Ah, if you've already got a fine sense of how much backlash you're racking up then I guess you wouldn't need verbal confirmation that it did something."

“Also so far every time I’ve done something it felt like something to do it, but yes. Seriously, though, I wouldn’t try something on you without asking first, like, that would be—slightly less bad than if you weren’t protected, I guess, but still, no.”

"I wouldn't have been offended in this case, since I just now came up with the idea myself, but good practice."

“Having an idea does not imply consent! I have all kinds of ideas!”