Basically, yeah! I-I acted confused— I didn't laugh it off... I acted like he was talking nonsense. Like he was being rude.
[ Which... was suspiciously insistent, as Luca'd probably already guessed. Alberto's already admitted it didn't "go well." But he wants to believe that he didn't just mess everything up for them... a familiar pit has been growing in his stomach at the idea that he might've, though. So, like with most anything, he just doubles down. ]
Look, apart from this bellybutton thing, I haven't been exposed this whole time... You haven't been exposed this whole time...! We've been human-ing perfectly fine. The bellybuttons aren't our fault. We'll just, uh— research what other things like that are necessary to seem human. Easy!
[ How the hell are you going to Google that, Alberto...? He's trying to write off the fact that they don't even know what they don't know. This was a total surprise to them. Alberto's truest fear in all this is simply: what else don't they know? What other quintessentially human details that they lack could blow their cover in a split second? But he's not about to speak to that just yet. He needs to run out of bravado first, of course. ]
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Date: 2022-07-17 01:46 am (UTC)[ Which... was suspiciously insistent, as Luca'd probably already guessed. Alberto's already admitted it didn't "go well." But he wants to believe that he didn't just mess everything up for them... a familiar pit has been growing in his stomach at the idea that he might've, though. So, like with most anything, he just doubles down. ]
Look, apart from this bellybutton thing, I haven't been exposed this whole time... You haven't been exposed this whole time...! We've been human-ing perfectly fine. The bellybuttons aren't our fault. We'll just, uh— research what other things like that are necessary to seem human. Easy!
[ How the hell are you going to Google that, Alberto...? He's trying to write off the fact that they don't even know what they don't know. This was a total surprise to them. Alberto's truest fear in all this is simply: what else don't they know? What other quintessentially human details that they lack could blow their cover in a split second? But he's not about to speak to that just yet. He needs to run out of bravado first, of course. ]