"I see..." ZEX again tried to picture what she described... two sticks in one arm, but what use would that be? After a moment he corrected himself... in a human hand, perhaps it would be different? He couldn't think of how that would work... perhaps they were stabbing implements, like the tined one? "Humans have so many tools for this kind of thing... you'd think having so many fingers would make them less necessary..."

Ah, she moved her hand! No more touching for now, unfortunately... but perhaps later... "Thank you." He tried to smile at her again, the motion still difficult and unnatural when given thought. "Human hands and fingers are very foreign to me... but I'm gradually learning, thanks to help from kind humans such as yourself." And when he stopped thinking about it, his smile did look a bit more natural, although probably not the way he intended. "Mmm, and knowing a human as beautiful as you, that can only be fortunate, despite everything else that has happened here."