“Well, I haven’t seen you around before…” Minion tried to prompt further conversation, still not really clear on if his lunch invitation had been accepted. It seemed so but the fish man was clearly still uncomfortable.
“I take it you’re not much of one for small talk, huh?” Minion shrugged a robotic shoulder.
“Iz better to hide.” Safer, for sure, but phrasing it that way was easier for him. Focus flickering over toward the fish Minion was carrying, he takes the chance of closing some of the gap between the two of them, trying to look more at ease with the unfamiliar alien’s presence.
Trilling softly, the sound is apologetic. “Not ve bezt wiv viz language.”
“Oh!” Minion brightened, “If English is a problem I know Russian, French, Korean, and Japanese fluently. Not nearly as many as Sir, but I am fairly decent at a few others too if that helps.”
Chuckling a bit he added, “It is a bit exposed out here, isn’t it?” he twirled around in his tank, “We can certainly go somewhere less in the open,” he hummed thinking about the area around here, he’d been planning on just going back to the Lair, “Any suggestions?”
The amount of different languages on this planet still caught the alien by surprise when the subject came up. “No, voze are… not needed.” More because Azlariel didn’t know them himself, partially because keeping up in English as it stood took some work. When he had a better grasp of that language he’d try something more.
“Ha’e a plaze vat can work.” Not near home, but close. Useable, as well.
“Well, as long as you’re sure,” Minion shrugged one large padded shoulder. Hefting up the container of fish, he bobbed in his tank with a toothy but friendly grin, “Lead the way.”
“Okay, okay, okay, scared? Yeah, you’re prolly scared,” Syx bit his lip, “I’ll let you down, just please don’t run. I wanna help, k?”
He looked up at Minion and down to the little child. His loyal fish made soothing motions towards the ground, his eyes wide and locked on the child. Slowly Syx sat the kid on the ground within the circle of his legs as he sat. Letting the jacket fall away, he whispered, “It’s okay. Safe, you’re safe. I wanna help.”
He really hoped he was helping…
The same confusion is still strong enough that the little alien peers up at Syx’s face with narrowed eyes. His expression otherwise doesn’t change, asking more questions in that same unfamiliar language he’d used before.
Leaning away from the taller alien at first, he reaches up suddenly, one little green hand against Syx’s face as if he wants to see if the blue is real.
Syx’s eyes widen in shock at the little hand coming at him. He started to pull away, then bit his lip and lean in slightly. Touch was good right? If they couldn’t talk. Touch was so important to him when he was that little.
“Yeah, see? Safe,” Syx murmured in hushed tones.
Minion made supportive nods and tried not to move. His fins fluttered nervously, though. It looked like a baby, but he hated taking chances with his Sir’s safety.
Yes, him and little Richard never get their due smh
except…chuck berry didn’t invent rock n roll…
Sister Rosetta Tharpe predates both chuck berry and little richard by quite a few years
Two of Tharpe’s hit songs were released in like 1944-45 when Chuck Berry was a) incarcerated and b) still a high school student, Tharpe basically discovered Little Richard, and she’s referred to as the godmother of rock n roll
lol just
throwin that out there
^^^EXACTLY
but Sister Rosetta was a woman and queer… so Black men will totally overlook her.
rock music was created by a black bisexual woman
Sister Rosetta new idol
Sister Rosetta Rocked the world
Spread the truth and dead the lies
❤ KICK ASS BLACK BISEXUAL MOTHER OF ROCK AND ROLL ❤
I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS WOMAN!
MUSIC NERDS – EDUCATE ME NOW!
I’m almost positive this is the same woman who actually sang “You Ain’t Nothin But A Hound Dog” first before Elvis stole it…
And her version was BETTER
WAIT! WHAT?
He didn’t sing that first? I need air and music. Someone tell me more.
Big Mama Thornton recorded Hound Dog in 1952. She is the first.
See this just makes that song actually make sense to me for the first time so you know, hat-tip for that, too, you have relieved my endless puzzlement I’ve had since I was a small child.
Wonderful documentary on her life & legacy in rock n roll
Today, March 20th is her birthday so can we just take the time to list some of her amazing accomplishments
– she was one of the very first great gospel artists who crossed over into r&b, rock n roll, and gained mainstream success
– she frequently performed with a racially integrated band
– guitar playing was seen as a “man’s” skill, but that didn’t stop her from beating out many guys in guitar battles at the Apollo
– she may have been one of the first successful black artists to even have a tour bus with her name on it
– this woman literally turned her wedding day into a rock concert for over 20,000 fans
– openly bisexual in her private life
– she sang with little richard in what would be his first public performance at her concert
– she held a successful tour in the UK during the early 1960′s well before the “british invasion” of rock n roll
RP backup 