[Cliff hesitates, mind immediately wondering if he's somehow in trouble with this man already. Parents, excluding his mom, didn't tend to like him...but he pushes the possibility aside and starts to wander closer. He hasn't done anything wrong, and the smile seems genuine enough. Then again, don't skeletons always kind of grin? Normal skeletons.]
Okay.
[He glances about, but thankfully it doesn't seem like there's going to be a rush of strangers swarming them -- swarming Héctor, really -- so he goes to sit where indicated. Cliff pauses again before reaching down to put his cigarette out against the ground and set it beside him. Best behavior... It feels itchy, like skin that doesn't fit quite right.]
You look better.
[Being fair, just about anything would have looked better than the state they'd found him in.]
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[Cliff hesitates, mind immediately wondering if he's somehow in trouble with this man already. Parents, excluding his mom, didn't tend to like him...but he pushes the possibility aside and starts to wander closer. He hasn't done anything wrong, and the smile seems genuine enough. Then again, don't skeletons always kind of grin? Normal skeletons.]
Okay.
[He glances about, but thankfully it doesn't seem like there's going to be a rush of strangers swarming them -- swarming Héctor, really -- so he goes to sit where indicated. Cliff pauses again before reaching down to put his cigarette out against the ground and set it beside him. Best behavior... It feels itchy, like skin that doesn't fit quite right.]
You look better.
[Being fair, just about anything would have looked better than the state they'd found him in.]