[On edge as Vash is, even the slightest bump has him quickly turning. The tails of his jacket whip at empty air, and he looks up, expecting the pale blue of his brother's gaze to stare back at him. It's only once he finds the brick wall of a building staring back to him that he thinks to look... down.

Oh.]

Oh! [Vash's hand lifts, scratching at the back of his head. He flashes a smile that's so warm and laidback that you'd be forgiven if you thought he'd never been on edge at all. This is, somehow, in spite of the fact that the person speaking to him is very obviously not human.

This isn't the first monster he's seen. Vash might have put on the guise of being aloof and inattentive, but he was keenly aware of his surroundings. He'd seen the less than human creatures lurking around corners, hiding in peripheries as if to avoid the human populace. At first, he'd written them off as failed experiments that had broken free of JuLai.

But no. The scientists there might have been as clever as they were sadistic, but going strictly based off of the plumage of the young... man? in front of him, he was quickly piecing together the fact that wherever he was, it was far from the planet he'd spent the last century calling home.

He doesn't dwell on that for now. Instead, he focuses in on the young man.]

No need to apologize! It's my fault for bumbling around, honestly! I didn't knock you in the head or anything, right?