Minoru chuckled when his nose got booped. “That’s great that you two have each other, then.”

The only telepaths he’d met were the Antheans, but Mantis didn’t feel like the aliens. He was as thin as one of them, though.

“Sometimes I wish I could talk to Kazumi like that.” Quickly clarifying, “She’s my pet butterball python. Raised her since she was a hatchling.”