We aren't. Our average lifespan in our time is just over 100 years old, a few live longer than that but there hasn't been a human who has lived naturally past 150, for instance.
[ Humans are curious folk like that, but then every species out there has their own peculiarities; people who have even shorter lifespans than that of humans, for instance. He finds her curiosity endearing and exciting both, always keen on letting himself be explored, and he seems to be very much at ease with being touched too.
Taking the flicker of her fins as permission, he reaches out and traces a fingertip along the top arch, catching the tip very carefully between two fingers, index on the back of the fin while the thumb sweeps inwards, closer to where it meets her jaw. ]
I'll give you that, offering people gifts can be really rewarding.
[ His eyebrows raise at her question, and he chuckles, shrugging and pursing his lips. ]
Well, they do move a tiny bit. But I guess we express our emotions with our other facial features— our eyebrows, eyes, mouth, nose, jaw. Sometimes with our hands and our posture, too. We're not necessarily a territorial species, though, so we don't tend to express that quite as much.
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[ Humans are curious folk like that, but then every species out there has their own peculiarities; people who have even shorter lifespans than that of humans, for instance. He finds her curiosity endearing and exciting both, always keen on letting himself be explored, and he seems to be very much at ease with being touched too.
Taking the flicker of her fins as permission, he reaches out and traces a fingertip along the top arch, catching the tip very carefully between two fingers, index on the back of the fin while the thumb sweeps inwards, closer to where it meets her jaw. ]
I'll give you that, offering people gifts can be really rewarding.
[ His eyebrows raise at her question, and he chuckles, shrugging and pursing his lips. ]
Well, they do move a tiny bit. But I guess we express our emotions with our other facial features— our eyebrows, eyes, mouth, nose, jaw. Sometimes with our hands and our posture, too. We're not necessarily a territorial species, though, so we don't tend to express that quite as much.