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.
What if it - pats the window, but then . . . leaves its hand there, pressed against it.
The smallfood's hand is much smaller but it will do its best to align the corresponding hand!
Okay very good that foods very definitely cannot touch it through windows.
This is kind of nice though.
Pitchy-warbly-noise.
Louder pitchier warbling!
. . . Hm. Does the warbling seem to be related to increases in yumminess?
Yes! Especially when it's louder.
"Hehkkhekkeh?" attemps the smallfood.
Two hands! Voila.
The smallfood makes some mediocresounds and pats both hands opposite floatfriend's hands.
Sure, okay. Pat pat pat pat. It starts off off-rhythm but then - oh! It's - they're the same! They're matching. There's something very good about that.
It trills happily. Pat pat pat.
An attempt is made at imitating the trill! And pats: Both both left-right-left?
It needs a few tries but eventually it can settle into that pattern.
There's something -
it wanted the food to pitchy-warble, and it tried to achieve that via putting another hand up. It wanted the food to copy it. It wants the food to copy it. It wants them both to copy each other.
The food is very cooperative with that. The food seems to also want them both to copy each other.
The food . . . has wants?????
The food attempts to teach it more complicated patting patterns. Bothpat clap, bothpat clap clap, left right left right clap clap wave-arms-around-in-the-air??
This food really seems to have wants!! Very complicated wants. Bothpat clap, bothpat clap clap, very easy, both - okay left. Right?? Yes; left right bo - clapclapclap - and - arms. It's asymmetrically wiggly because it really doesn't want the sponge to fall out of its sleeve.
The food repeats this pattern until its floatfriend has done this correctly twice and then introduces a new more complicated pattern still! Bothpat bothpat clap clap right-hands-pat-each-other left-hands-pat-each-other repeat repeat repeat clap clap spin around!
It gets so good at the repeating part so fast but keeps forgetting to switch to the coda. In fact it takes several repetitions to realize that's what's happening; the first three times it assumes the good smallfood is starting a new pattern, but then it clicks. (Possibly this is contributed to by the discovery of spinning. Spinning is so fun?? It is so so good at spinning. Better than the good smallfood even though it only just learned of this activity right now.)
. . . If it puts its bothpats higher on the window, maybe the good smallfood will float up to them, and then will become a better (at spinning) smallfood.
The smallfood can't reach and doesn't float about it for some reason.
Come to think of it that's not very unusual; most foods don't float most of the time. It's only that this food is so very strange as to have wants, that it thought maybe smallfood was also another it in other ways. (Do the other its also have wants? Probably; that would make a lot of sense.)
It adjusts itself downward and, after another blundered cycle, successfully completes the tricky sneaky sneaky pattern.
YAAAAAY! Tasty tasty food is so tasty to have a playmate.
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