It was really, really very difficult to be sure what to do. He didn't pull away, but of course he didn't lean forward again either. Actually, Vlad remained perfectly still, smiling back politely while trying to decide for sure whether the man, er, VUX were flirting. It could still be that for his species, closeness was expected, that pulling away would be rude, or...
Stop being a ninny, he's got hickey-marks all over his neck.
Vlad coughed a bit behind his hand. "Well! Yes, it's a pity that so many of us have lost that which makes us unique in this place. Though I'm fortunate enough to have no such great adjustment to make, I'm very sympathetic with how difficult it must be for others. Just as it must have been difficult for a, ah, peaceful-minded person such as yourself to be forced to go to war." He managed to pat ZEX on the shoulder very lightly. "But you must have been good at it, to have become an Admiral."
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Stop being a ninny, he's got hickey-marks all over his neck.
Vlad coughed a bit behind his hand. "Well! Yes, it's a pity that so many of us have lost that which makes us unique in this place. Though I'm fortunate enough to have no such great adjustment to make, I'm very sympathetic with how difficult it must be for others. Just as it must have been difficult for a, ah, peaceful-minded person such as yourself to be forced to go to war." He managed to pat ZEX on the shoulder very lightly. "But you must have been good at it, to have become an Admiral."