Viper “Don’t copy me doin’ this, jus’ tryin’ ta remember how ta do it. Ya can make some more stars if ya want while I figure this out.”
Cue more vigorous nodding. Man, everything was working out perfect! If he could remember all the steps. He’d do his best!
He did slip the music lady a few looks as she went along, though. Bird? Is bird??
Viper “Jagal, huh? Where ya from? ’S a cute name.”
“Oh, thank you.” Because cute was a compliment and not just calling him not cool and it’s not like he came up with the name, anyway, so it wasn’t—she was just being nice. Which, a lot of this was being nice, but that made sense because teachers, uh, usually were? Mostly. When you actually did your homework. “It’s supposed to mean, um… ‘loyal,’ I think?” There was a less normal word he was forgetting, but it pretty much meant the same thing, so it wasn’t that important, right? Hopefully not because it wasn’t happening right now.
“I’m just from Hasak. Kinda the northern side?” Because how could she not know where Hasak was and its directional layout? It was pretty much the only place that existed, after all.
Viper “Equipment! That’s cool! What kinda equipment? Like… rock climbin’? Wood cuttin’?”
THERE now he’s cool. Hehe. “Uh… yes? A little bit? Mostly just stuff for the miners, but there’s some herding and travel stuff, too.” Distracted by the star attempts, he had a delay of about two folds before cringing. Oh that was a terrible sales pitch. He just wasn’t used to talking about it somewhere he couldn’t show off the wares themselves, maybe? Was that a good enough excuse?
Viper “Not in a mean way, don’t worry! Jus’, like, affectionate? Like ’Oh, you’re so annoyin’, stop it’! But ya can tell they don’t really mean it?”
“Oh… Okay.” He nodded in understanding. (<- Doesn’t get it at all)
