If i were a peeper.
"Would you take me to your planet..?"
"No." Ryley replied far too quickly for her to assume he had even considered her inquiry, perhaps he already contemplated such delusions..?
This mindset amused the old leviathan, she had seen many creatures but nothing as perplexing as her little brooding companion.
"Why not..?" Emphi inquired belligerently, her tenticle coiling around his waist and dragging her small companion away from the useless rocks he was picking at and back to her nest.
Watching him carefully place his head against the warm chiatin of her offspring ingited a heavy sense of …something she didn't quite understand.
There her brood flourished, an accomplishment, a future she had shown the small human multiple times but an accomplishment he never failed to praise her for.
Ego and proud were still vary new concepts to her, her captors had never akwnowlaged her triumphs with such indulgent reponse, no matter how much effort was expended in her pursuits they remained indifferent, the leviathan could hardly fend off such immature yet carnal impulses and yet…
He did not resent her eagerness, was this what acceptance felt like..?
Was it fair to indulge in such pleasantries when she had so little to offer? Why did he linger..? She had little else to offer once her offspring hatched, Even now the scent of death clug to him, a sweet but revenous smell the silicone of his second skin could not hide.
"Because humans can be cruel, you were trapped in here becuase they wanted the cure from you, with hunans…they'd cage you up simply because they could..itd never be safe for you…even if you were a peeper."
"But you are not in a cage…"
"Haha…it may not look like it, but yeah i am too, its just a long leash, one that'll be yanked taunt when i return home.."
Then why not stay here..? An incredulous and impulsive thought, this place was not his home like it was to her, there was nothing here for him…why would he stay vigile in a world that stripped him of everything..?
Because she wanted him to..?