"Also if you're nervous about meeting people you should make sure you're checking before you go out to the yard to see if anybody's there."

Affirmative burble.

Pet pet pet. "You're so cute. I hope that if you zhoop you're still cute. And soft."

"Still soft," she affirms. "Doesn't know cute." Think think think tiny face does tiny scrunches. "Probably still cute."

"How do you figure?"

"One zhoop not very different, only little different. So, cute now, probably still cute."

"Hm. But possibly less cute? - how many times could you zhoop?"

"Doesn't know..."

"I guess if you were going to do it more than once the other floatgoats would have time to exist."

Confused burbling.

"- like, if you zhoop a lot of eggshells and you're right next to them they'll zhoop into you right away, right, but if you then wanted to zhoop again, then you'd need to zhoop more floatgoats, and zhoop them together, and then zhoop with those, right?"

She seems to have difficulty articulating her objection to this; after a few false starts, she inquires, "Picture zhoop?"

Deshi shows her the video of zhooping she took.

She figures out how to interact with the video and then tries to play it a bit at a time to showcase the intermediate stages going by in a nearly-nonexistent blur, but can't quite get it to go frame by frame.

Deshi can pull up the frame slideshow?

Aha!

"Rock," she says, pointing at the collection of lapis lazuli pebbles before she started. "Has time."

Scroll scroll scroll through the frames, and: "More-rock," pointing at the ghostly barely-there silhouettes of the upgraded pebbles as they flash briefly into existence. "Doesn't has time."

Very shortly thereafter, "More-more-rock. Doesn't has time," as the next level pops in and out on its way to achieving its final form.

And then at last, "More-more-more-rock. Has time," as the fourth level of pebble appears and persists.

"Start, thing has time. Zhoop-zhoop-zhoop, middle thing doesn't has time. End, thing has time." She waits to see if she has communicated successfully.

"- oh, so if you wanted to zhoop again you'd just need to make an even huger pile of eggshell harvest?"

Triumphant burble of successful communication! Bounce bounce! "Yes!"

"Aaaaah you're so CUTE. Can I put my face on you?"

Deshi's face is rather large in comparison to Petal's tennis-ball-sized body... but Deshi is a friend, even if she is a Big and Occasionally Surprising friend. "Yes okay."

Nuzzle!

Tiny reciprocal nuzzle!

Awwwwwwwww!

"Suvi might come over again today."

"Suvi good!"

"Yeah! But in the meantime I wanna work on my transcription thing, is that going to bother you?"