[all right. this is pleasant. Zhas can just pretend the awkward transition between theft and perfectly rational negotiation was not awkward or uncomfortable at all.
and he doesn't seem like he was going to slide away immediately... he's still not a great talker, but he is much more inclined to "chat" when he doesn't have to use his voice to do it. this small person (child? ...teenag...er? something about him still seems strange) comes off as lively and bubbly to him, but not obnoxiously so. he guesses that the kid would leave him alone if he asked him to, and that in itself makes this less oppressive than 80% of his conversations with strangers.
for his name, he spells Z H A S... but after a measured pause, he also signs, 'My name is...' and shows him a sign where he crosses his hands, hooks out his index fingers, and drags his hands down over where his ribs would be. it's not exactly common vocabulary, but he's combining the form for "Z" with the sign for skeleton.
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and he doesn't seem like he was going to slide away immediately... he's still not a great talker, but he is much more inclined to "chat" when he doesn't have to use his voice to do it. this small person (child? ...teenag...er? something about him still seems strange) comes off as lively and bubbly to him, but not obnoxiously so. he guesses that the kid would leave him alone if he asked him to, and that in itself makes this less oppressive than 80% of his conversations with strangers.
for his name, he spells Z H A S... but after a measured pause, he also signs, 'My name is...' and shows him a sign where he crosses his hands, hooks out his index fingers, and drags his hands down over where his ribs would be. it's not exactly common vocabulary, but he's combining the form for "Z" with the sign for skeleton.
and then he points. 'You?']