[Look, it's a kid. Who looks kinda like if you mixed a human with a cat. Surely, that won't ring any bells of any kind. It's a totally cool thing, right, people that look like human-animal hybrids?]
[The alien, who piled into the daybed with him to heat up with more tea after a snowball fight - and maybe ask if he'd met that gossip lady, squints in sudden annoyance.]
What what?
[Rude, much? Not even a "hi"?]
[The 14-year-old is short enough Ed will have someone else to call a shrimp. His species doesn't tend towards being that tall to begin with, and though though he's wiry and strong, he's small for his age even by Ventrexian standards, only 4'2" if you don't count the ears.]
spill the tea
[The alien, who piled into the daybed with him to heat up with more tea after a snowball fight - and maybe ask if he'd met that gossip lady, squints in sudden annoyance.]
What what?
[Rude, much? Not even a "hi"?]
[The 14-year-old is short enough Ed will have someone else to call a shrimp. His species doesn't tend towards being that tall to begin with, and though though he's wiry and strong, he's small for his age even by Ventrexian standards, only 4'2" if you don't count the ears.]