[Companionable silence or friendly conversation are both equally welcome in Mal's book, but that particular question throws him off and even makes him a little self-conscious. He pauses halfway through seating himself at one of the rinsing stations, pulling his bad arm in defensively.]
Of course I'm gonna wash it...
[Those hard-to-reach places may be even more impossible than ever, but he has a system. It involves holding one end of the long washcloth in his mouth and dangling it over his shoulder while reaching around his front to kind of awkwardly grab the other end and make a futile attempt at scrubbing what he can, but... it's better than nothing!
Of course, now that Luna's brought it up, he's not so eager to show it off. It feels pathetic enough as it is, and he hates to imagine how much worse it looks to someone else. How pitiable must he be that he didn't even have to start that display for Luna to start looking down on him?]
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[Companionable silence or friendly conversation are both equally welcome in Mal's book, but that particular question throws him off and even makes him a little self-conscious. He pauses halfway through seating himself at one of the rinsing stations, pulling his bad arm in defensively.]
Of course I'm gonna wash it...
[Those hard-to-reach places may be even more impossible than ever, but he has a system. It involves holding one end of the long washcloth in his mouth and dangling it over his shoulder while reaching around his front to kind of awkwardly grab the other end and make a futile attempt at scrubbing what he can, but... it's better than nothing!
Of course, now that Luna's brought it up, he's not so eager to show it off. It feels pathetic enough as it is, and he hates to imagine how much worse it looks to someone else. How pitiable must he be that he didn't even have to start that display for Luna to start looking down on him?]