She sighed. “Don’t want. Only nice because human. Not because me.” Her wide eyes were full of pain and confusion.
“Look,” Becker said, getting frustrated now, “I’m trying to apologize, to make up for what I’ve done wrong, and I can’t exactly do it to… dinosaur-you while you’re… HUMAN-YOU!” He grit out. “So what can I do?!”
She winced. She just wasn’t comfortable around this man, and as a human with no defenses her fight-or-flight instinct, that was usually stuck in fight mode was now almost permanently flight mode. She didn’t want to be here. She didn’t want to be human. She didn’t like this. Not any of this. She wanted to run and hide. To be normal again. She hugged herself, no longer able to come up with words for all of the complicated things running through her mind. But mostly she wanted to be away from the angry man.