[Yondu plucks the arrow from the air and holds it out to him.]
Yup. We call it the 'livin' metal'. Go ahead. Hold it. It reacts to sound, any sound. We say it listens.
[And when he whistles again, it vibrates gently. And it moves, but in the way one looking at a series of straight lines sees them move if they stare too long, or the way a bed sinks too deep a moment before sleep. It's subtle about it, perhaps a trick of the nerves or actually real. It even does it when someone speaks near it.]
Centaurians tip their normal arrows with it. [His is absolutely abnormal.] Wear ornaments of it. For some reason it only turned up there. Hard to redo in a lab. No one knows why.
[He doesn't want to pry too much. Not out of lack of concern, but he doesn't want to run him off. He knows how he feels when someone gets too close to the underbelly of his thoughts, and you never know who has a knife. He's terrified of that shit, all the time.]
Y'know uh... You ever wanna talk about it, I'm the last guy to judge. A bunch of my business was up on wanted posters for ever'body to see, so I'd keep it.
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Yup. We call it the 'livin' metal'. Go ahead. Hold it. It reacts to sound, any sound. We say it listens.
[And when he whistles again, it vibrates gently. And it moves, but in the way one looking at a series of straight lines sees them move if they stare too long, or the way a bed sinks too deep a moment before sleep. It's subtle about it, perhaps a trick of the nerves or actually real. It even does it when someone speaks near it.]
Centaurians tip their normal arrows with it. [His is absolutely abnormal.] Wear ornaments of it. For some reason it only turned up there. Hard to redo in a lab. No one knows why.
[He doesn't want to pry too much. Not out of lack of concern, but he doesn't want to run him off. He knows how he feels when someone gets too close to the underbelly of his thoughts, and you never know who has a knife. He's terrified of that shit, all the time.]
Y'know uh... You ever wanna talk about it, I'm the last guy to judge. A bunch of my business was up on wanted posters for ever'body to see, so I'd keep it.