[Maybe keeping it factual and casual doesn't help Rita to feel any less bad about it, but it does manage to keep Voyager from being overly sad on this past crab-owner's behalf too. Between this, and Natsuno mentioning the Dioscuri having left as well...it's sounding like it must be a trend around here. He still wonders where exactly it is that these people have all gone...
But so far, there have been enough distractions that Voyager's had no chance to thoroughly pursue this line of questioning, and this moment now is no exception. Rita admonishes his little jump with clear surprise, and Voyager stops short, blinking but letting her catch up properly. At least this means he doesn't really register that 'uncreative' remark...even if he thinks those were all perfectly nice crab nicknames!]
Oh...sorry...I didn't think it would be weird...but, I'm being careful! [He tucks his injured hand more securely to his chest in emphasis, fingers curled to keep the bleeding from going everywhere. Though that's already slowed considerably, and he'd even almost forgotten about the stinging for a moment, getting caught up in crab nicknanes. (It does still sting a bit, though...)] It's just, stairs...they're kind of a hassle, aren't they...?
[All the little steps lined up the way they are. Sometimes they're fun to try out, but sometimes they're rather tedious as well, to a floating sort of person with short legs like himself. Still, since jumping seems to bother Rita a bit, Voyager will attempt taking the next set of stairs the normal way. Carefully, slowly, a step at a time...!]
he's trying his best!! 'stabby' was also gonna be somewhere in there smh
But so far, there have been enough distractions that Voyager's had no chance to thoroughly pursue this line of questioning, and this moment now is no exception. Rita admonishes his little jump with clear surprise, and Voyager stops short, blinking but letting her catch up properly. At least this means he doesn't really register that 'uncreative' remark...even if he thinks those were all perfectly nice crab nicknames!]
Oh...sorry...I didn't think it would be weird...but, I'm being careful! [He tucks his injured hand more securely to his chest in emphasis, fingers curled to keep the bleeding from going everywhere. Though that's already slowed considerably, and he'd even almost forgotten about the stinging for a moment, getting caught up in crab nicknanes. (It does still sting a bit, though...)] It's just, stairs...they're kind of a hassle, aren't they...?
[All the little steps lined up the way they are. Sometimes they're fun to try out, but sometimes they're rather tedious as well, to a floating sort of person with short legs like himself. Still, since jumping seems to bother Rita a bit, Voyager will attempt taking the next set of stairs the normal way. Carefully, slowly, a step at a time...!]