Thinking about my livestreamer Ryland Grace and I started giggling cause like.
If we go more into the book lore, Rocky doesn't have a voice. He sings his musical notes, and Grace understands because he's got his translator and actually spent time learning the different sounds and what they mean, but he never gives Rocky a way to speak in the traditional sense. So I'm now imagining that being what people on Earth see.
Just a guy talking, and a rock spider humming whale songs back at him, and everyone is so sure Grace is making half of it up cause there's just no way he can actually understand. It isn't until he sits down and talks through the actual technology and how it works that people realize that he isn't going completely insane, but only a little bit insane.
