at: idk, it's almost midnight w/: fabi :3 @petalites
“did you see the thing from the new england aquarium about how they built a little retirement home for their senior penguins?” if he has, he's about to see it again because juliet's already pulling her phone out of her pocket. pulling up the tiktok clipped news story she'd gone as far as to download to her phone expressly for this purpose — showing anyone who might be even halfway interested in listening to her yap on about animals and aquariums. “they built this special island for them with extra padding and ramps away from the younger penguins that had been picking on them. cute, right?” pauses, scrunches her nose a little and backpedals. “the special island part, not getting penguin bullied. that part is kind of sad, even though they're not trying to be mean. so i don't know if you can really call it bullying.” being careful about projecting human emotions onto the animals too much, even though that's never really been her strong suit. and it's only then, after getting her whole penguin spiel out of the way, that her polite brain kicks in enough to add, “oh, and hi.”