"Good job, soon enough you'll be able to move on to irony!"

Why is this creature so aggravating. ...creatures. These creatures. Whatever.

Yvette snorts a little, and pats him soothingly.

"I want a scanner and printer so I can properly record data. And wouldn't it be fun to make the doctor go play fetch? And see his face when he walks in with us like this?"

"Mr. Knives, you should learn from Ms. Marlowe, that was what persuasion looks like. We'll go bother the good doctor." And off go the bugs.

"...Marlowe? Yvette Marlowe?"

That's good, that's useful, he'll be able to look up her family for more evidence that she's a plant.

"... Yes. That is indeed my name," she says, a little wryly. "Middle name 'Sylvia' but first and last name should let you find me just fine."

He nods, starts to lean into her shoulder again, remembers she said arms only, and pulls back again.

"Head's fine," she assures him. "It was just the legs that were. ... yes."

"Oh. Something about the weird reproduction-related feelings. I see." He can lean his head against her then.

"It is exactly with the weird reproduction-related feelings." Pat pat pat.

And then back to work!! She is kind of excited at the prospect of having a SCANNER and a PRINTER, she is going to be distracted getting all of that set up. This doesn't involve directly helping his sisters, but it's for if he ever needs to without her.

If she'd said that on day one he'd have been suspicious. Now he kinda just... believes her.

Dr. Conrad shows up a few hours later with a scanner and a printer that look... like they were literally just purchased.

It'd make sense for him to just have money. Money is useful for things.

"Hello!" she says cheerily to Dr. Conrad, when he shows up. Is she smug? Her?? Smug? Yes, absolutely. Because it's obvious that the doctor has literally never tried giving Nai a hug. Or even thought about it.

No no he's thought about it he was just very sure he'd have been knifed to death if he tried.

Not to death. Just a lot.

And anyway Dr. Conrad looks, if anything, somewhat happy to see this. It's very minor body language, he's still trying to be professional, but it's there. Here are the requested items, if they need anything Yvette can reach him using that specific messaging app on the computer. It will always get him even if he's asleep.

"Thank you very much!"

And then yes, back to work. With ~*~printed, scanned, and consolidated data!!!!~*~

She is really happy about this for some reason? ...and that also makes him really happy? Okay.

(He misses it when he made people happy. Well, Zash. ...and Rem, he guesses. But still.)

Well, she seems pretty happy. About consolidated and organized data, and also about the snuggles. Because she does keep occasionally petting him and leans into him a bit. Mmmmm snuggles.

He's not going to grill her on any more information about her birth for the rest of the day. Just... hug, and watch, and learn.

Then she will just happily work until she needs to be reminded that she has a physical form that requires maintenance. Because she's absolutely going to forget that again. She's distracted by having a scanner and printer when she didn't have one before and she has so much STUFF to organize!

Yeah he supposes they have a system going now, don't they.

...wait does this mean he'll have to unhug.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM.

"You need to care for your physical form," he says, which is a phrase he got from her.

“Oh damn it I do,” she grumbles, almost as irritated as he is. “Ughhhh.”

"Yes." And it would be pathetic for him to be extremely disappointed that he has to stop hugging so he just floats away. "Good night, Yvette."

"Good night, Nai," she says, but he can get a proper goodbye hug from her before she goes.

And then, yes, food, bed, miscellaneous physical form maintenance. Just. The WORST.