So, the food here is good, but mostly in that it's stable and available and that very very occasionally someone gets a full meal. It's not, like, actually very particularly yummy. There's the food-food, which are basically always boring in nearly the same ways, and then there's the food that you're only supposed to nibble the teeeeeniest bit on, which are more interesting in general but still get pretty old after a while.
It's time to see what else is out there.
The smallfood squirms around the largefood and taps the window too, twice.
Tap tap tap.
Tap tap tap tap tap?
Tap tap tap, tap tap tap, scraping of the window with fingernails for the duration of three taps?
Tap tap tap, tap tap tap, sc - oh that is a bad noise and hand-feeling.
The smallfood makes a mediocresound - it does go up and down in pitch but not in a rhythmic way. Tap tap pat tap tap pat?
Hmmmmmm. . . . Pat. Patpat. Yeah okay.
Tap tap pat tap tap pat, and then it tries to imitate the mediocresound.
Oh also how tasty is this smallfood? It forgot to have been licking it until now.
This smallfood is pretty tasty - not the tastiest ever in the world but pretty tasty.
It suddenly dashes away from the window and comes back with a piece of paper and a black crayon and starts making marks on the paper with the crayon.
Ooh. It can't copy that; it doesn't have the materials. But it will keep trying at that mediocresound while it watches to see what will happen with them.
Mark mark mark mark - voilà!
It is an attempt at a picture of Floating Friend!
It . . . unsleeves the sponge and holds it out where the smallfood can see???
The smallfood runs off to get a yellow crayon and starts drawing that too. The largefood, previously only occasionally glancing in this direction, is now staring straight at the sponge.
Tap tap clap clap tap tap clap clap! goes the smallfood.
The largefood is making more mediocresounds and the small one replies in kind.
. . . . . . . . ""clap""??
clap?
clap! clap clap - resleeve the sponge - clap clap CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAP CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP
Smallfood makes the pitchy burbling sound again and starts jumping around and clapping some more.
Ehhhhh-hhehhhhhehhhhehhh clap clap clap clap
(Its hands are not quite fleshy enough for its claps to sound the same as the foods, but the sounds are mildly nice in their own way.)
The smallfood goes for the windowlatch; the large food catches its hands and prevents it from opening the window.
Is the smallfood by chance untasty about this, like the other smallfoods were before when a sort of similar thing happened?
Yeah, the smallfood gets less tasty when its hands are caught!
Foods exchange mediocresounds. Eventually the smallfood is released but it doesn't open the window, just taps back.
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