The offered foot gets covered in a soapy washcloth and scrubbed. Robin wonders if he can get Phalanx some shoes, and how long they would continue to wear them if he did.
That pondering goes sideways as they ask him another question, something much more abstract. Or is it? Robin assumes, at first, that they're speaking in metaphor--but he doesn't actually know if Phalanx is capable of metaphor.
But he can't mean literally, right? The demigod goes quiet while he tries to think of an answer, sifting through layers upon layers of connotations that only he (and maybe a semi-omniscient pack of ghosts) would have.
"I think you're a person," he finally states. "At least, you're in the shape of a person."
But that is a very boring answer, one he finds vaguely distasteful, so he expands on the thought with a growing smirk: "But maybe in some stories, you're a bird. Do you know what a magpie is?"
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That pondering goes sideways as they ask him another question, something much more abstract. Or is it? Robin assumes, at first, that they're speaking in metaphor--but he doesn't actually know if Phalanx is capable of metaphor.
But he can't mean literally, right? The demigod goes quiet while he tries to think of an answer, sifting through layers upon layers of connotations that only he (and maybe a semi-omniscient pack of ghosts) would have.
"I think you're a person," he finally states. "At least, you're in the shape of a person."
But that is a very boring answer, one he finds vaguely distasteful, so he expands on the thought with a growing smirk: "But maybe in some stories, you're a bird. Do you know what a magpie is?"