[ he doesn't need any of this, nor does he think he wants it. unfortunately for archer, the palai have noticed how isolated he is normally -- and someone new, who follows him and bandies words with him so easily...! well that's a solution to all your problems.
Archer's sneer widens, but before he can say anything: a pair of palai, one of them the one that watched the egg before, push into him from behind, voices raised in a chrous of opinions as the small hands? claws. whatever, take the egg away from him once more.
they leave him empty handed and baffled, having lost momentum on his bitterness, as he looks back to lancer from the retreating palai. ]
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Archer's sneer widens, but before he can say anything: a pair of palai, one of them the one that watched the egg before, push into him from behind, voices raised in a chrous of opinions as the small hands? claws. whatever, take the egg away from him once more.
they leave him empty handed and baffled, having lost momentum on his bitterness, as he looks back to lancer from the retreating palai. ]
... I don't think it matters what I say.