The fire elemental leaning on the doorframe looked over. “No, we can’t. We can tell if your uneasy or scared, just not smell it. Like, say, you know how you get this prickly feeling on your back when someone’s staring at you? Like that.” The gargantuan fire elemental shifted to make eye contact. “And we wont hurt ya. You have plenty of choices. There are cruel people, yes, but there are always people like me or others to step in. Ya got nothing to worry about.”

“I’ve trusted big people before which lead to…unspeakable things. Can’t really trust anyone nowadays never mind a stranger. Also please don’t take offense to this but you seem kinda like a fire hazard to someone as flammable as me.”

Scout smiled and knelt down to get a look at the tiny, tiny person before him. Sure he was trying to get the RED intel, but that could wait. This was far more interesting. ‘Hello?’ He signed. ‘Who-‘ He paused a second. ‘What are you?’ (Ask-mute-scout)

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He squealed as he came around the corner, seeing the giant BLU staring right at him. He scrambled as they slipped on the laminated floor and hid behind the desk’s edge. Poking a single small eye out to watch them. Thankfully they were using sign language so they wouldn’t burst out a loud roar. 

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