Steve was just happy to be in the building at all, sitting loosely in his chair with his arms hanging limply on either side of it. Steve had always liked being around people, and was grinning quite happily for the most part, even if his surgical disfigurements were somewhat restrictive toward this simple goal. Plus, he was in his favourite leather jacket, on top of a smart brown suit that had been picked out for him by Sophie that day, who was his social worker, and he had the chance to help the city, even though he hadn't had any opprtunities to do so since the... thing, which had happened to him, and which Sophie always reminded him wasn't his fault.

Really, the only things that were distressing him at the moment were the appearances of a few of the people, though he'd been assured several times that they were all good people deep down, even if they looked scary. One of them looked sort of like a human, but had a weird skin colour and head appearance, which had unsettled Steve for a bit until he remembered that his own face didn't look very good, after the... the thing that happened... and after he remembered that, he stopped being as unsettled. The second person scaring him was like a big clothed rat on two feet. Steve didn't really like rats. He wasn't that fond of most types of small mouse-like mammal, really, given that he had had bad experiences with them during the... he didn't want to keep thinking about the thing that had happened, because it was making him upset. It didn't help that the rat person was twitching violently, and drawing most of Steve's attention when he wasn't grinning at everyone else. Still, he wanted to be friendly, and Sophie always said that he should be "polite to others", which he thought meant to be friendly in a not silly way, so he continued to smile whenever he looked at the rat person even though it looked strange to him.

The third scary person, and the one who would shortly produce most of Steve's disturbance at the situation, was a lady who looked like they had scales on their face, which was less scary than the weird head man or the rat person, at first. However, just as she started talking, the robot arm person managed to bang their head on the table, drawing Steve's attention from the rat person and causing him to giggle a bit, and it was just his bad luck that his eyes had gone over to the scale lady the moment she transformed into a velociraptor. It took him several seconds to process that somebody had suddenly been replaced with a giant dinosaur, but shortly after that, accompanied by a moment of arm flailing and a couple of loud screeches of surprise, Steve kicked himself away from the table, tipping his chair over on to its back and awkwardly scrambling away from the table for several seconds before, remembering that he was trying to be polite, he stopped, wriggled himself back up to a standing position, then slowly shuffled over to his chair, set it back upright, and sat down, eyes locked on to the raptor the whole time to make sure it didn't attack him suddenly, mumbling something about scary monsters.

'Sorry,' he said loudly by way of apology. 'There was a... the dinosaur happened, and it was scary. Sorry.' After a couple of moments of thinking, because he was trying to think of a question to ask the person who was going to be their boss, he then followed up by forcing his eyes off of the raptor to Kaden and asking 'Hooooww many bad guys are going to be... how- how many will there be, mister Merol- Melrovah- um, mister Kadun?'


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Let's assume "several seconds" is long enough for everyone else to have said their bit up to this point, so that Steve's outburst doesn't affect anyone else's posting activity so far. Also, bonus points to anyone who spots the reference.
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