@collidingmoral sent: "Hey. YOU. Speak up, will you?! You said something that sounded smart, so I WANT to hear it." Zavian [Disguised] to Alex
『🔧』 Oh, no - it was one of Alex’s truest, deepest fears come true! Being called out in a public space! Sure, it was in a positive light, or at least it seemed to be, but being put on the spot like that was still something she wasn’t used to. It made her panic for a second, the imperious tone of the other, scraggly-haired scholar shook her to her very core. Perhaps trying to draft up some tweaks for her prosthetic in a public setting wasn’t as good of an idea as she really thought - if someone was so willing to distract her like this.
Well - she supposed the only correct course of action was to just roll with it. After all, the whole situation blessed her with a chance to talk about her pride and joy, her own prosthetic arm. “Well-... I was just, uhm-- I was just thinking about whether it was practical for me to put a full axle in my wrist, so- so, that, uhm... so that I could rotate my hand a full 360 degrees, which would, uhm- allow me to grip things in new ways, I guess. Uhh-... is there, uhm- any way you can weigh in? I know it’s a long shot, but-...”