[Her species title is equally unfamiliar, though slightly more unfathomable is the understanding that the minimal level of interest he has thus far expressed appears to be mutual. He has grown too familiar with suspicion and outright hostility as immediate reactions to his general existence. This person - Chiana - largely seems to communicating something else entirely.
Though it is, admittedly, quite difficult to be certain.
Social cues of the terrestrial variation were never his forte, and the additional layer of cultural distance has doubtless complicated matters.
Cultural distance. He isn't fucking Jackson.
He is slightly too taken aback to inflect his next words with their usual amount of calculated indifference.]
Dr. Nicholas Rush.
[It belatedly occurs to him that human titles will likely be entirely lost on the ears of non-terrestrials. He may conclude privately, irritability, again, that he suffers a significant lack of interpersonal skills regarding even the more basic foundations of conversation.]
no subject
Though it is, admittedly, quite difficult to be certain.
Social cues of the terrestrial variation were never his forte, and the additional layer of cultural distance has doubtless complicated matters.
Cultural distance. He isn't fucking Jackson.
He is slightly too taken aback to inflect his next words with their usual amount of calculated indifference.]
Dr. Nicholas Rush.
[It belatedly occurs to him that human titles will likely be entirely lost on the ears of non-terrestrials. He may conclude privately, irritability, again, that he suffers a significant lack of interpersonal skills regarding even the more basic foundations of conversation.]