[There was a reason Shell flooded this hallway with pheromones -- he wanted to keep everyone away from him right now. To be alone. And to protect the man in the pod in front of him in perhaps the only way he can.]
[As such, he's not expecting to have someone approach him, let alone get close enough to reach out and touch him. He startles immediately, eyes wide and brimming with tears.]
[But expression aside -- his skin is pale, and not in the sort of way one would look from simply avoiding the sun their whole life, and his eyes sunken in with dark circles underneath. He looks either sick, sleep-deprived, or both.]
H-How did you... [His eyes quickly fall on those fluffy ears of his.] You're... not human?
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[As such, he's not expecting to have someone approach him, let alone get close enough to reach out and touch him. He startles immediately, eyes wide and brimming with tears.]
[But expression aside -- his skin is pale, and not in the sort of way one would look from simply avoiding the sun their whole life, and his eyes sunken in with dark circles underneath. He looks either sick, sleep-deprived, or both.]
H-How did you... [His eyes quickly fall on those fluffy ears of his.] You're... not human?