[That Kino appears very nondescript to an average person is something done knowingly; they are used to being a stranger in a strange land, and often the easiest way to travel is to make oneself as unobtrusive as they could. It had certainly offered them slightly more ease getting around this city than other newcomers, whose slightly-more-obvious "otherness" attracted great deals of attention.
There was less of that here, set away from the common crowds as it was. There was just the attention of the dragons. As Kino turns to address the question, the dragon that they had been patting on the nose looks none too happy to be momentarily ignored.]
Oh. [It wasn't the first time someone had expressed surprise at Hermes; though it was alternatively rote or simply unsurprising for motorrads to speak in Kino's own world, the fact that the vehicle had his own sentience was something of a shock for most they'd spoken to here so far.]
It's mine. What, can't you tell? You have ears, don't you?
[The voice, a tonally lower and gruffer than Kino's (albeit still sounding quite young), was certainly coming from the motorcycle leaning on its kickstand. Kino begins to approach it, looking chagrined.]
Don't be rude.
[A brief pause, then, in grumbled undertone:] I think it's kinda rude they're all so surprised...
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There was less of that here, set away from the common crowds as it was. There was just the attention of the dragons. As Kino turns to address the question, the dragon that they had been patting on the nose looks none too happy to be momentarily ignored.]
Oh. [It wasn't the first time someone had expressed surprise at Hermes; though it was alternatively rote or simply unsurprising for motorrads to speak in Kino's own world, the fact that the vehicle had his own sentience was something of a shock for most they'd spoken to here so far.]
It's mine. What, can't you tell? You have ears, don't you?
[The voice, a tonally lower and gruffer than Kino's (albeit still sounding quite young), was certainly coming from the motorcycle leaning on its kickstand. Kino begins to approach it, looking chagrined.]
Don't be rude.
[A brief pause, then, in grumbled undertone:] I think it's kinda rude they're all so surprised...