because this is a little Uncomfortable and he isn't good enough at self-control to stop blushing yet!! okay maybe he can but it's only because Haruka isn't actually here. ]
Is that all?
[ please don't ask him any other embarrassing questions... ]
Anyway, it isn't too far to the gardens, so they get there in about five minutes or less. The weather seems to have gotten a little cooler - either because the sun is starting to go down, or because it... might start raining in a few hours. ]
[For his part, Slaine doesn't seem all that affected by the presence of company. They've got an arm's distance or so between them, and that's enough to satisfy any comfort zone he might have. Perhaps not so were he elsewhere, among people who hated Terrans by virtue of being born on the blue planet, but...well.
It's fairly safe to assume based on the presence of living, breathing (albeit bizarre) nature that they're on Earth. So why would Terrans revile other Terrans?
They'd hate him if they knew who he was, but nobody recognizes him this far.
A long, heavy round of silence settles almost uncomfortably between them before Slaine thinks to make any comment at all]
Just to confirm...
[Because the circumstances warrant that he question his faculties at this point]
She blinks in surprise when he nudges it over her too, and she glances up.
If he gets wet like this, she probably would get into trouble, so she moves so that she can sit down on her heels, then they can both share more comfortably.]
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