An early - [Day 5] Video

[iobairt]

I do not suppose anyone else has received pineapple-themed foods this morning?

[Maya frowns at the camera before it pans down to some BBQ'd pineapple.

And then a heap of yellow Nutri-cubes.]

I asked for something not this.

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[kosmonautilus]

[A video back, showing Lucas with an assembly of other yellow things. Balls, pens, some flowers, a piece of cloth and of course various pineapple foods. It seems like a color study, but he looks upset, waving his tablet, the screen displaying a biohazard sign. Clearly the pineapple isn't popular with him either, though the reason why is yet dubious.]

[iobairt]

[Maya blinks and cocks her head.]

I'm not sure if I follow. One of these is not like the other? One is a biohazard?

[kosmonautilus]

[She'll have to be patient while he furiously draws out an answer on his slate - no yellow involved. Words are hard.]

"It tastes like spines!"

[The ones found on lionfish, that is.]

[iobairt]

Like.... spines?

[She is not following the logic at all.]

Spicy?

[kosmonautilus]

[For a moment the slate goes flying, Lucas angrily waving gestures that'd need 3 more arms and a lack of joints to properly do. Then he fetches it again, sulking at having to do such tasks himself.]

"Spiky! Angry fish!"

[His shorthand drawing puts the slates translation to a challenge.]

[iobairt]

I... believe I see.

[Nope. She is not getting this at all, but she is trying!]

It isn't spicy, though? Though would mean you are allergic.

[kosmonautilus]

[She will get a helpful drawing of a lionfish. Full display filled with red-white stripes coming from one central point. The slate labels it 'artistic expression of anger/scary, possibly lifeform'.]

sorry for the slow. You are free to ignore if this is too late!

[iobairt]

So, to you, pineapple is an "angry fish"?

[Huh. She'd never thought to think of it like that, but she supposes it makes sense in an alien way.]

It would explain your reaction, though I do not think I'll ever look at it the same again - imagine it swimming in the sea with spines bared.

[kosmonautilus]

"Tastes angry!"

[He isn't sure how to explain that. Not dangerous-allergic, but like sticking your tongue into battery acid.]

[iobairt]

Tastes... angry?

How so?

[kosmonautilus]

"Tingles when touching!"

[He might be allergic and not know it. Or at least have some mental crossover to senses not common in human bodies.]