[Byleth finally blinked at that one word, proving that he did, in fact, have eyelids.]
...hello.
[...]
...
[As the silence stretched, Byleth became acutely aware of another's gaze on this situation: Sothis. The progenitor god herself observed this charismatic meeting of two social butterflies with a palpable air of morbid fascination, her attention spurring Byleth's atrophied social skills to slowly flick through his mental flash cards of "conversation starters". Clearly, he was doing something wrong if Sothis was staring at him like he had just started licking the walls unprompted.]
Food. [A topic! Good start. Now, attach a verb in there somewhere.] Do you want any?
[Excellent. Bravo! Sothis facepalmed and promptly went back to sleep, washing her hands of this situation entirely.]
:3c
...hello.
[...]
...
[As the silence stretched, Byleth became acutely aware of another's gaze on this situation: Sothis. The progenitor god herself observed this charismatic meeting of two social butterflies with a palpable air of morbid fascination, her attention spurring Byleth's atrophied social skills to slowly flick through his mental flash cards of "conversation starters". Clearly, he was doing something wrong if Sothis was staring at him like he had just started licking the walls unprompted.]
Food. [A topic! Good start. Now, attach a verb in there somewhere.] Do you want any?
[Excellent. Bravo! Sothis facepalmed and promptly went back to sleep, washing her hands of this situation entirely.]