[She returns his smile - not that it's infectious (and not that she'd even use that metaphorical language, the narrator adds, having realized she predates germ theory) or anything like that, but it's easy to meet and return a disarming gesture when there's nothing seemingly threatening about the person who made it first. She can't sense anything off about him, but she can't sense anything beyond the usual five senses everyone has anyway.
Which is wrong, but she can't afford to panic about it right now.]
It's not often that I meet someone else with eyes like mine, I'm sorry if I was starting to stare.
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[She returns his smile - not that it's infectious (and not that she'd even use that metaphorical language, the narrator adds, having realized she predates germ theory) or anything like that, but it's easy to meet and return a disarming gesture when there's nothing seemingly threatening about the person who made it first. She can't sense anything off about him, but she can't sense anything beyond the usual five senses everyone has anyway.
Which is wrong, but she can't afford to panic about it right now.]
It's not often that I meet someone else with eyes like mine, I'm sorry if I was starting to stare.