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Clara spends a good few minutes just watching.
Not the alien, of course-- she'll get to them in a minute. No, the thing that Clara finds most entertaining on this kind of day is the crowd. Gotham is a voraciously curious city, and yet so acclimated to the strange. Watching her people interact with an oddity brings her as much glee as a child at Disney World. (Probably. She's never actually been.)
Eventually she takes pity on the creature, however, when the waving phones start getting too close. Clara shimmies her way through the field of people with ease and emerges with one of her most winning smiles.
"Hello, darling! I hear you're Groot. Listen, I think this place might get a little uncomfortable soon, so I'd like to move us, and then we can figure out whatever it is you need. Sound good?"
