[ Peter's pretty surprised to hear this, given his assumption that Fern would know a lot about plants, being.... made of them. But clearly, he's wrong about that.
......Which maybe makes sense, now that he's found out Fern has connections to humans? Has a human dad, even. Just... what happened to Fern? ]
Oh, my bad I guess I thought you'd know about them because of being who you are
[ He really hopes that doesn't read as insensitive. He has no idea what to ask or how, but this is some attempt to actually learn a bit more about Fern, whereas Peter had spent so much time being too afraid to in the past. ]
Not that it's weird or anything if you don't I just uh I thought maybe plants were like your 'thing', you know?
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......Which maybe makes sense, now that he's found out Fern has connections to humans? Has a human dad, even. Just... what happened to Fern? ]
Oh, my bad
I guess I thought you'd know about them because of
being who you are
[ He really hopes that doesn't read as insensitive. He has no idea what to ask or how, but this is some attempt to actually learn a bit more about Fern, whereas Peter had spent so much time being too afraid to in the past. ]
Not that it's weird or anything if you don't
I just uh
I thought maybe plants were like your 'thing', you know?