No one has taught Alloran tail-wagging or the thumbs-up, though he's seen both and has a vague idea that the thumb gesture is affirmative. He knows what it means when humans move their heads side to side, is this some other indication of that? But Stacia surely still can recognizably shake her head... After a moment, he lopes after her, hooves as audible as high heels on the tile.

<I'm proceeding on the assumption that that was a yes. You can accelerate if it wasn't,> he declares as soon as he remembers that, right, that's an option. It does seem like a better idea to be behind her than before her.

Idly and not for the first time he wonders what would happen if he acquired her, if this would be a good morph. He's not really thinking about doing it, of course, he hasn't taken in any new DNA in months and months. It's a remnant of all that time with Esplin in control, touching every large dangerous-seeming creature he came across in case it was useful.