[ The creature stays just like that, unmoving and staring in silence as the man crouches lower, closer, and this is as close as they've ever been, face to face.
All it knows is how humans have behaved towards it since its unexpected arrival to this alien planet. And they're... strange creatures, frightening ones, for how unpredictable they are. The same humans that fed it, hurt it. Trust is so slow-growing, but.... again, the entity knows this man has been providing it with sustenance, and so far has not hurt it. Granted, it's stayed inside of its host so much that there has been little opportunity for this man to harm it, but... now here they are, face to face, and he hasn't tried to cause it pain.
If anything, this is very reminiscent of how the woman from before interacted with it. She'd crouched down low, to its level, nervous of it but not flinching away. She'd tried to keep its host safe — and it had absorbed those attachments from Konstantin, glimmers of trust and security.
Konstantin also trusts this man. And there is affection there, and maybe now that things have slowed down and it's too exhausted to be upset, the creature feels the ripples of similar waves towards Vasiliy as it stares up into his wide brown eyes and the man speaks directly to it — with words it can't comprehend, but it does feel the shifts in voice, in tone. The man is very intentional with how it addresses the creature, and it's rare that a human has spoken to it like this. Communicating.
In any case, it's too tired and too weak to resist anything. It makes no sound at all, unable to even expend the energy to growl. It even goes a bit limp there in the man's grasp, though it is afraid, and its little body shudders. It's never been picked up before, this is new and strange and it doesn't understand what might happen. ]
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All it knows is how humans have behaved towards it since its unexpected arrival to this alien planet. And they're... strange creatures, frightening ones, for how unpredictable they are. The same humans that fed it, hurt it. Trust is so slow-growing, but.... again, the entity knows this man has been providing it with sustenance, and so far has not hurt it. Granted, it's stayed inside of its host so much that there has been little opportunity for this man to harm it, but... now here they are, face to face, and he hasn't tried to cause it pain.
If anything, this is very reminiscent of how the woman from before interacted with it. She'd crouched down low, to its level, nervous of it but not flinching away. She'd tried to keep its host safe — and it had absorbed those attachments from Konstantin, glimmers of trust and security.
Konstantin also trusts this man. And there is affection there, and maybe now that things have slowed down and it's too exhausted to be upset, the creature feels the ripples of similar waves towards Vasiliy as it stares up into his wide brown eyes and the man speaks directly to it — with words it can't comprehend, but it does feel the shifts in voice, in tone. The man is very intentional with how it addresses the creature, and it's rare that a human has spoken to it like this. Communicating.
In any case, it's too tired and too weak to resist anything. It makes no sound at all, unable to even expend the energy to growl. It even goes a bit limp there in the man's grasp, though it is afraid, and its little body shudders. It's never been picked up before, this is new and strange and it doesn't understand what might happen. ]