[His head snaps around, concern flexing the plates of his face, drawing mandibles off his teeth.]
You okay?
[The answer is probably 'yes', given how Steve starts back working again almost immediately. He has to ask - it's out before his brain pieces together the probable cause. Right. The jellyfish shocks.]
[Time to be even more careful, he supposes. One at a time, more quickly than before, but still careful. Speed instead of quantity. Does it know they're trying to help? For a moment, he pauses, studying the thing. It's an animal. Isn't it? How the hell is it supposed to understand? It's not a hanar, or anything like that.]
[So he shrugs.]
Do these things have brains? It doesn't look like it's got much of a head...
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You okay?
[The answer is probably 'yes', given how Steve starts back working again almost immediately. He has to ask - it's out before his brain pieces together the probable cause. Right. The jellyfish shocks.]
[Time to be even more careful, he supposes. One at a time, more quickly than before, but still careful. Speed instead of quantity. Does it know they're trying to help? For a moment, he pauses, studying the thing. It's an animal. Isn't it? How the hell is it supposed to understand? It's not a hanar, or anything like that.]
[So he shrugs.]
Do these things have brains? It doesn't look like it's got much of a head...