[It was an intention; now it's something more, a promise, an aspiration. Roger is experiencing actual respect for another person for the first time in his horrid gremlin life.]
I'm Roger.
[His hand is still a little bloody, and damp where he's been licking at it, and he's not sure if her smoky edges would grasp him back at all, if he offered it to shake, so he doesn't, but his tone is the same as if he had, a crisp British sensibility, of neither quite propriety nor supplication, so much as hopeful sociability. It's a tone he's very rarely used, not as a quiet, furtive child before the island, and no introductions were necessary once he came into his own there. But he employs it now, wants very badly for her to continue to smile at him, to tell him more about how to be monstrous and controlled at once.]
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[It was an intention; now it's something more, a promise, an aspiration. Roger is experiencing actual respect for another person for the first time in his horrid gremlin life.]
I'm Roger.
[His hand is still a little bloody, and damp where he's been licking at it, and he's not sure if her smoky edges would grasp him back at all, if he offered it to shake, so he doesn't, but his tone is the same as if he had, a crisp British sensibility, of neither quite propriety nor supplication, so much as hopeful sociability. It's a tone he's very rarely used, not as a quiet, furtive child before the island, and no introductions were necessary once he came into his own there. But he employs it now, wants very badly for her to continue to smile at him, to tell him more about how to be monstrous and controlled at once.]