Terrible!  But it's learned the secret of cleartapdoors now, so once the food is away again it will simply reopen it.

This time the goodsounds stop right away. Both foods get up and come look out the window, making mediocresounds. Also they're less yummy now.

Why does this keep happening??  It was not even tapping and does not have its extremely covetable sponge outside of its sleeve.  (. . . Squish squishsquish the sponge from the outside of the sleeve.)

Do these ones do stuff with their robe-things and become untasty too after a bit, or something else?

These ones do not immediately change robe-things; the one closes the window and locks it this time, and tests it to make sure it won't open "on its own", and then they sit back down to what they were doing.

Open?  Open???  Why are doors so fickle.

The soft goodsounds coming from the glowing square have no answer.

If the door will not open :| it will simply have to search for goodsounds elsewhere :| :|.  (Ideally also some yumminess, but priorities are priorities.)

The next nearest goodsounds are coming from a non-glowing device a food is listening to while sweeping its apartment.

And how yummy is this food?

Mediocre (for a non-home food, which has a very high baseline compared to home foods).

And how are the goodsounds?  Tautologically they must be good, of course, but it wants to develop more refined discernment now that it's had enough exposure that there's room in its mind for reactions more complex than !!!.  What qualities does it have.

Some goodsounds have soundshapes that are like mediocresounds, and some of them are relatively pure in their goodsoundness; this is an example of the latter. It is fast and mostly only on one pitch at a time.

That's so good of them.  It feels like goodsounds get even better the closer attention they are paid.

Are the next collections of goodsounds also like that or are they different?

There are some mediocresounds, and then there are more goodsounds, also without any mediocrity added but with more notes at a time!

Oh it's been a while since it practiced its mediocresounds!  What sounds were there for it to try and copy?

(Goodsounds goodsounds goodsounds <3)

There were sounds like thhhh and like sssss and like ayyyy and like nnnn and like wuh and like owww and like oiiii and like khhh.

It is already so so good at khhh and nnn and sss, and kind of good at ayyy and wuh, but the others definitely need a lot of repetition for it to get even close.  It shuts up when it's time for goodsounds again, though.

The goodsounds go on for several minutes this time while the food busies itself with applying various objects to miscellaneous surfaces.

Hmm what are the objects like?  Do any of them squish?  Is the food doing the thing of matching movements to goodsounds, especially in copiable ways?

Some of the objects look like they might squish, though the food isn't manipulating them in a way that shows them off to best effect. The food is... maybe matching a little? But mostly not.

Very conveniently, it remembers some of the movements from before, and can replicate some of those!

. . . Some of them are broken; they don't match up with these goodsounds.  This is very confusing for a while!  Eventually it determines the issue to be something about the rhythm, and then it spends the duration of this goodsounds trying to adapt the movements to it.

The door leading into this apartment from the rest of the building's inside opens. It's a small food, with a brightly colored backpack and lots of hair accessories. It closes the door behind it and then points directly at the hovering observer outside the window and yelps in mediocresounds.

Fun when the foods are colors.  It continues its uncoordinated attempts at dancing.

The larger food turns off the goodsounds and goes right up to the window while the smallfood yelps on.

It did not even touch the cleartapdoor this time?  . . . It seems really important to know whether foods can reach through cleartapdoors.  It carefully floats forward, gives the window a single tap, and then zooms backwards out of grabbing range.