[quote=@Terminal]"Hey, you! You're standing too close to the line, get closer in to the rest of us. You don't want to be stuck between the folding walls."
[/quote]

Snapped out of his random delusions of significance by the sharp order, Luca immediately bounded towards the others. [i]I'm such an idiot,[/i] he thought privately. "Sorry, I'm...." [i]an idiot -- but don't say that out loud, stupid!![/i] "Sorry." 

His movement -- though late, and a little awkward for that fact -- was nevertheless remarkably spry and efficient. Watching him take a scolding and spring into action was something akin to watching spider monkeys deftly conquer a forest canopy. It was at once impressive and perfectly, naturally mundane; as though in both mind and body, this was his life's calling -- to recover from oblivious stasis with sudden bursts of competence.