[HE ROW COME YOU KNEE CAY SHUN] - [Text]

[thepurpleone]

Hey Agrii

Can we have the ships back?

I want to go on a space vacation.

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[agrii]

Grow up listen to He Rows more than even other Agrii. They watch Fleet. I watch He Rows here. Listen. See.

Soon hopeful! Give gift to He Rows who nice.

[thepurpleone]

Fleet... like the one Keith told me about? Where everyone was stuck on ships and couldn't die? How are you watching us? ....do you watch everything?

[Suddenly very self-conscious.]

Very specific but I guess Santa purportedly does the same thing.

[agrii]

Yes. That fleet. Watch all things. See He Rows. Know He Rows.

Who Santa?

[thepurpleone]

That is super concerning. I heard the ones behind the whole Fleet thing were not nice. And may still be around.

Santa's this over-commercialized gimmick for a holiday called Christmas back on Earth. The story goes that he's some big guy with a beard and dresses in red, and he goes all over the world delivering presents, all in one night, which is physically impossible, of course.

[agrii]

Not nice how?

Not hear of Santa before. Why give gifts?

[thepurpleone]

Using other people for entertainment kind of not-nice? Actually I know someone who does that back home and she's pretty horrible, but at least it's a very specific form of entertainment in that she throws people in a big old arena called the Battle Nexus.

Know what, I have no idea. I think it was just a way to get kids to behave and do stuff like clean their rooms and do all their chores or else Santa would skip them. Adults come up with anything to get kids to behave.

[agrii]

Fight is bad. Hurt is bad.

Should clean room so no trip and hurt self. Just smart.

[thepurpleone]

Yeah, getting hurt is not fun.

Know what, agreed. My room is usually very clean and everything is in its place.

[agrii]

Know. See room. Very clean.

[thepurpleone]

Uh.

What else have you seen?

[agrii]

Many things. He Rows talk of make skool. What is skool?

[thepurpleone]

That is not reassuring at all. Do you like, watch when we sleep and stuff too? Because that's kind of creepy.

School. It's a place people go to learn various things.

[agrii]

No. Is boring.

Oh. What learn?

[thepurpleone]

Not to mention rude. Wow. How would you like it if I watched you all the time?

Well, I've never been, myself, except for when my human friend needed help in her projects, but there's all sorts of subjects. Language and math, science, art...

[agrii]

Would let you, if could. Can't.

Explain subjects. Know math. Is adding and subtract.

[thepurpleone]

... Anyway..!

Well, language is speaking, dialects. Like you're learning how to talk to us. I believe in cases of schools back home, it's more like sentence structure and boring stuff like that. Science is basically learning how things work. That's about as simple as I can put it. There's lots of different areas of science to study, after all.

[agrii]

He Rows all know words of Agrii. Not know why need learn.

How do things work?

[thepurpleone]

No we don't. There's some weird kind of auto-translation thing happening. I'm not sure how, nor if I should be concerned about some unknown brain surgery happening without my knowing it.

Well, depends on what things. It could be like how power is transferred or how plants grow or how bodies operate.

[agrii]

No make surge.

How do plant grow?

[thepurpleone]

No idea how we can all understand each other either? Despite our coming from different worlds in some cases?

Most plants grow from pulling nutrients from the ground and water, and eventually get to a point where they can also take in sunlight to help their growth process. It's fascinating, really. You've never studied plants before?

[agrii]

No study but He Rows. Plant grow like in glass box?

[thepurpleone]

That's kind of creepy.

But they can. Depends, some grow better than others. Some have very specific needs.

[agrii]

What needs? Teach needs?

[thepurpleone]

Like... Some need a lot of sun, and others don't need too much light or thrive better in the shade. Some don't need as much water. Things like that.

[agrii]

Which does this need?