quietmounds | (no subject)

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WHAT in person
WHERE Tidy Living Apartments
WHEN Day 132

[A very unusual-looking cutie is standing in the foyer of the Tidy Living apartments today. You definitely haven't seen them before. They are repeatedly pressing the elevator button, then jumping when it opens]

But I don't get it... I know the ding means get in, but who's opening and closing the doors...? Is someone here raising and lowering it? Ahh, and when I went upstairs, it was completely incomprehensible...

[Help them out?]

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Oh, wow. I've never even heard of most of those.

Are you, uh... okay, here? Without them.

What ones have you heard of?

Ummm. Well, I'll miss them, but I've been fighting my entire life, so I think I'll survive. And if I don't, I won't be here to worry about it!

[ that's... sad... almost alarming but ive spent the last 5 months convinced im gonna die so, i mean, who am i to judge ]

I'm not sure you're gonna have to fight much here, so... it's fine to relax? I guess.

Peacetime is strange, but I won't complain.

... yeah. It is, isn't it.

I wouldn't have thought gems get a lot of action, though.

Oh. It's because the Lunarians would always come to break us and take us to the moon.

[ the WHAT ]

Oh... I'm so sorry.

Mm. Whenever it was sunny, that was a risk. But it's gone on for thousands of years so action is just the norm?

Thousands of years... that's a lot to have to defend yourselves.

Well... We might be able to change it. Perhaps we can even get some of our friends back.

Can I ask you something that might be a little rude?

Yeah, go ahead?

I know asking about appearance things is indelicate but, ah... [gestures at her chest area] What are those?

[ looks confused for a second

mimics the motion-- OH. oh. pats her boobs. ]

They're boobs. Breasts? There any mammal animals on your home?

I don't think so. Mostly just insects and jellyfish.

Man, this is awkward. Okay, uh.

Start from the top. Mammals give live birth and produce milk for their babies? They've all got some form of breasts, humans just have really noticeable ones.

Also real soft and nice to touch. [ squish. ]

Oh! All right. I understand animal reproduction, at least. They mate to make new animals to replace them when they die off.

Humans do seem very soft... [not reaching for immediately that would be rude but now they are SO curious about softness] Gems have to be careful about touching each other too roughly or quickly. Harder gems can easily damage more fragile ones. I guess humans don't have that problem.

[ man i can see it on your face. she just watches with a sort of. amused and slightly baffled look... ]

Wow, just like stones back home. I mean, not all of us have that problem, but some of us can definitely hurt each other by accident.

[ somewhat flatly, brows raised: ] Did you want to touch.

I shouldn't, I'm a 10. I don't want to hurt you. And anyway, you didn't invite me to, so I wouldn't.

That was just an invitation? Abd I'm not sure what being a ten means but I doubt you'll hurt me. No worries.

On the Mohs scale! It's my hardness ranking.

[gently pokes the side of a boob] So soft...!

Yeah they're great.

I dunno anything about Moe's Scales. Never heard of it.

I don't know why it's named that, but it's the measurement of a stone's hardness. On a one-to-ten scale.

[lightly pokes again, then tucks their hands behind their back]

... that makes a lot of sense, I guess.

[ it is a boob. she's got a small chest so the jiggle physics are weak sorry dia. ]

Date a cute girl and you can touch all the boob you want.

A cute girl? Oh, date, huh... a date, huh, a date...

Yeah, yeah. Why not?