She nodded at that question, clearly intrigued by him, "I'm not from Earth, otherwise I'd be human. I'm from Ovio." Studying the human before her, she copied his stance, trying her best to make it look 'human'. It felt odd to not stand up tall and proud, but to learn more about humans, it was bearable. She looked around while waiting for a response, silent as a mouse. Human conversation was a back and forth thing, she figured out that much.
“Ovio… never heard of that one,” he laughed nervously before looking around as well. He was distracted, clearly. A call came from his walkie-talkie to which he lifted it to his ear to hear what was going on.
“Patrol A, what’s the situation, over.”
”Patrol C, reporting arrest, over.”
Ah… that was quick. He nodded and put the walkie-talkie back to where it was. So he could stay with this… alien girl for a bit longer then.
“So… why did you come to Earth?”
"It's not close to Earth," She started, pausing as his attention drifted and continued when he looked more focused, "As for why I'm here, I didn't plan on coming here. Our ship crashed here, and so now I'm stuck here until I find my friends and we repair our ship." Suhi tipped her head to the side, blinking slowly and pointing to his walkie-talkie, "What is that?" A noise that sounded like another human's voice had come out of it, but there was no other human around.
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“This?” He gestured to the device. “This is uh… what we call a ‘walkie-talkie’. I know, very creative name for something that was designed for humans to ‘talk’ while on a ‘walk’,” he laughed softly before he started paying attention to her looks and all that. A question emerged in his head which wouldn’t exactly be wise to as—
“May I touch your horns?”
Per usual, his mind was slower than his lips…
"A walkie-talkie…interesting," She replied slowly, repeating the name and tucking it away in her memory. Humans named things strangely, she could tell that already, but it was a fitting name. Suhi was deep in her mind as the human asked his question, blinking a few times before she realized she was being talked to. Again she blinked, then replied as she looked up at him, "Yes you may."
It didn't occur to her that her horns would look out of place or why this human wanted to touch them, but she didn't mind him doing so. It wasn't unusual for the young on her home planet to be curious about the horns they hadn't yet grown, and it wasn't strange for them to want to touch them, and so this was no different.
He laughed a bit before reaching out to soft her horns. Yup. They were real alright. He smiled softly as he leaned down a bit to her. “If you are unsure as to where to look, might I suggest coming with me? We might have some info on your friends somewhere but I honestly can’t be sure. But… that might just be your best bet,” he shrugged and continued rubbing her horn.
Suhi copied a nod that she had seen humans do before, hoping it was the sign of agreement that she was looking for, "I would not deny help, if you do have ideas where my friends may be." She stood still as he rubbed her horns, not seeming bothered at all by the situation. "If there is no information on my friends though, I will be alright setting off on my own to find them."
“I won’t lie, he have not much information yet but as far as I’m concerned, there have been reports of a crash somewhere around the northern parts of town. People are still unsure whether it’s an asteroid or something else with how burnt the thing was,” he mentioned, retracting his hands from her horns and smiling at her again. “For an alien, you seem pretty cute honestly.”
"Maybe that is them," She guessed, supposing that their ship was the only thing that would survive a crash through this atmosphere. Suhi copied his smile as he pulled his hand away, saying without much thought behind it, "For a human you seem the same." It didn't sound rude to her, and she asked afterwards, pointing to his smile and her own copied one, "Do humans normally do this to signal that they're happy to see each other?"
He blushed a bit at her words and scratched the side of his cheek a bit before nodding softly.
“N-Not everyone does it but it’s normal for me at least…” he was getting quite notably embarrassed and it would seem like he’s enjoying himself talking to this alien a bit too much.
“But yes, this—“ he pointed at the smile he’d put on “—a smile, is something I recommend you try to give to people. Especially a soft smile. It’s just to tell them that you’re enjoying your time with them,”
"A smile.." She repeated, still copying his own smile, "And if I don't enjoy the time I'm spending with someone, I don't smile. Makes sense." Suhi was already enjoying learning more about humans, especially their weird words and social cues. And this human was making things quite easy to learn. "Do you have a name?" She asked, quite out of the blue, realizing now that so far this human was just a nameless creature to her.
“Oh, me? You can call me Adam, that’s what I’m known as by most people,” he nodded as he spoke, still, his smile never faltered. It was weird talking to an ‘alien’ per se, but she seemed to be enjoying her time with him. “Well? Would you like to follow me to my working space to perhaps get some clues about your friend’s whereabouts or… what would you like to do?”
Suhi thought for a moment, weighing the situation out and smiling at Adam, "I would like to, yes. The sooner I can locate them, the sooner we can decide what to do." For only being on earth for a few days, humans seemed much nicer than when she had read about them. Adam, and the other human she had met both had been helpful to her, much different than the scary species she had read about.
He nodded and took her hand, starting back towards the police station before stopping at the intersection. He looked back at her before smiling almost sadly and pulling her to a different direction instead…
Once arriving, he opened the front door of his house and sat her down on the living room couch.
“I’m going to go get the information on the crash I talked about by myself, alright? I don’t want you getting caught by the officials or anything,” he mentioned before opening the door as if he’s about to head out again. He turned back to her for a moment.
“Don’t go anywhere outside of this building while I’m gone. I’ll be back in a bit,” with that, he closed the door and sprinted towards the station.
She went with him willingly, looking around the entire time at their surroundings. This world was strange but fun to explore, and when he smiled at her on the walk, she smiled back.
"Is this the place you work?" Suhi asked curiously when he brought her to his house, looking around inside even as she sat down. He didn't leave room for her to ask any more questions though before he was gone, and she was left on the couch, understanding his direction of staying in this place, what he described as a 'building'.
Just because she didn't know much though, didn't mean she was going to stay right there though, and after a silent minute she got up, starting to look and pick up things, studying them. She already had so many questions for Adam.
Adam soon came back to his house with the folders of reports from the officials.
“Okaaaaaaaay,” he kicked the door shut and came to sit with her on the couch.
“First off, to answer your question from earlier, no. This is my house, my home, not my working place. I realized a bit too late that if I took you to my ‘working place’, they’d report you to the officials and you might be taken away. Not something I want to see,” he mentioned, looking at the folders he brought.
“Was there anything you wanted to know before we get on with the reports?”
Suhi hurried to sit back on the couch when Adam came back, holding a pen she had found in her hands. She listened carefully to him, listening and glancing at the so called 'reports' he was holding. They almost looked like the material they used on her home world to record information, and almost instantly most of her questions disappeared in favor of the familiar looking objects.
"My questions can wait, but what is this thing?" She asked, holding up the pen and revealing that she had pen running over her hands, though it was difficult to tell if it was on purpose or just on accident, "It leaves strange lines on things."
“O-oh… that’s caused a ‘pen’. It’s used to record and write things, basically,” he mentioned, smiling softly at her goofiness. “Speaking of such a tool, do you not have ‘pens’ where you’re from? How do you even record or write or draw things then?”
She shook her head, studying the pen as she replied, "We have touch sensitive documents and we normally use sharpened sticks to record things on them. It's just the force you use that makes the words appear." The pen looked similar to what she used when she was back on her home planet, but it was new to have the stick or pen make the words and not the paper. Maybe it worked better than their method. "Do your documents here not react to force?"
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“Uh… not this one. There are document that react to force but I don’t think I have one here,” he mentioned, looking around the room as if he thought he had something he could show her. Of course not, this wasn’t his main house. It was more of a resting point if anything.
“Anything else before we start looking at these papers?”
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Suhi shook her head again, studying the pen, "Not that is pressing enough for me to ask. You may carry on with the papers." She was still intrigued by the pen, but it could wait until she learned more about the whereabouts of her friends. And so, almost reluctantly, she set it down beside her, waiting patiently. Hopefully this would help her get started on her search for the others. That way they could decide what to do with this impromptu crash-landing.
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“Right… so, about the reports. We have here—“ he pointed to one of the photos which was one of ones that showed when a comet-like figure fell down and was about to hit Earth. “—this one was taken three days ago,” he mentioned.
“The reports said that the object was unidentifiable. It was not asteroid, nor was it a comet remains,” he mentioned, looking at the notes again. He showed her another photo, one which was an up close one of the unidentifiable object he’d mentioned.
“Does this look familiar to you?”
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She squinted at the pictures, pointing to the first one and the object in question, "That's my capsule, or it looks similar to mine. Though that is not the entire pod. I think the pod broke into our capsules sometime after entry into your atmosphere." Suhi nodded again at the other picture, pointing at a band of writing almost carved into the capsule, "This is my identification number. That is a picture of my pod. When was this taken?" She had been planning to go back to her capsule after a few days of exploring, and there were things inside that she knew would be studied by the humans, and she didn't want them to be taken and studied.
“This was taken…” he looked at the date and time on the papers and “…two hours ago,” he answered. So that was her pod, huh? Perhaps she was the only one who’d fallen down around here. However it may be, she was still needing much care, and he was there to provide it.
“Will you be heading back? To your pod, I mean,” he asked, wanting to assist her on her way there if she wanted to go back.
She frowned, then studied the picture, "I would like to head back…but I feel like it would not be safe. Not with so many humans around the area." It seemed dangerous to be out of place in a group of so many humans, especially from what she had read and learned about. They didn't seem to like foreign beings. "Is it likely that the humans that found my pod will go through it? Or will they be polite and leave it alone?'
“It… uh, unfortunately more liking that people will have gone through your pod by the time we arrive,” he had to state the truth, sighing softly. “If you want to head back, I’ll give you some of my clothes and you can blend in, I suppose,” he mentioned.