There’s a constellation in here now. The constellation Corvus, they think. Whatever constellation it is, they don’t want it so high up, so they’ve switched into a work shirt and jeans. When Sad’s call comes through, they’re hanging onto the constellation, onto what would likely be the crow’s tail, trying to pull it lower in the sky of their domain.
Carson hears the chirp of the incoming video call, saying as the audio filters through, “Hang on a second, Lovey, I’m trying to pull this back into place.”
{Lovey?} inquires a voice, completely different than the one they’d expected. Carson reviews quickly the audio they’d talked over.
Flat on their back on the floor, safely out of view of the camera, they switch from their hanging around the domain clothes to the tuxedo. A video call. They hadn’t expected that. Faced with the quiet elegance of the other squip, the cat ears headband feels very silly and childish, so they vanish it.
Getting back to their feet, they wave to the screen, more than a shade embarrassed. “Hi, Sad, I’m Carson. It’s nice to meet you. Sorry, I thought you were my host. Nobody else calls and, well, I wasn’t expecting you to respond through video.”
They adjust their cuffs to give themself a minute to think of how to phrase it. “You wouldn’t have seen me before; I was just relocated here. My host and I had some communication issues in our old sector, so she thought this one might be a better fit. So, yes, I’m pretty new. Around here, I mean, I’ve been active for about two years now.”
Exhaling to try and relieve a little of the tension in their shoulders, they give him a smile that matches his nervousness almost exactly. The fear that they’re screwing this up is entering their brain. “There’s no trouble here or anything, I just wanted to, you know, meet the neighbors, that sort of thing. I never got to talk to other squips in the old sector, so I thought, you know, change of scenery, change of pace! So, if I happen to trip over my own tongue or the like, please forgive me; I’m so nervous, I could short-circuit on the spot.”
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