Chris, Sonic thought as he watched as his mate piled some more stuff onto his dish. His eyes never wavering from her face. Chris, mate to Sonic. It had a nice ring to it, he admitted to himself as he blinked and glanced away from her face to look down at the stuff she had put before him to...eat? He was supposed to eat this, or at least he assumed he was. But it was all so peculiar looking he wasn't sure if he could eat it.
Not that that was Chris's fault. She probably just wasn't aware of just what his body needed to survive and so she was improvising by assuming that he could eat the same things as her since he spied some of the same stuff on her dish.
It wasn't a bad assumption for an educated guess. Nor was it entirely off since he had noticed some similarities the two of their species. So naturally, instead of simply pushing the dish away and jumping up to go hunting for fruits, Mobian honey- a very sweet syrupy substance that was used to make candy by his people, for their young- and some vegetables to eat; however since she had gone to the apparent trouble of giving him something to eat, he'd eat it.
Or at the very least force himself too since he didn't want to be wasteful as Chris finished piling things onto his plate and finally pulled away and then said. "Okay, sorry about the wait- Sonic. I gave you at least three times as much as I would eat because I figured you must be really hungry after sleeping for the past several days since getting hurt."
Sonic's ears twitched slightly and he nodded his head in understanding and looked down at what she had placed before him.
Noting with some distaste that there was some more of the weird yellow stuff on one side of his plate, while next to it was two separate piles of what looked like meat (one pile of strips, and another pile of patties) and next to that was a slight pile of what looked like thickly sliced bread with a peculiar- sweet smell to them that she then drizzled in syrup.
And next to his plate was a bowl with different colored stuff in it that smelled...familiar.
His eyes flickered away from the pile of food on his plate and back to Chris as she picked up a silvery piece of metal and watched as she used it to take a bite of the yellow stuff. Flattening his ears back against his head, he picked up the same silvery piece of metal and decided to try and eat some of the yellow stuff and speared some on the tins of the eating utensil and raised the yellow stuff up to just below his nose and sniffed at it and perked up slightly upon realizing that it didn't smell unappetizing. It merely looked unappetizing.
Good to know, He thought as he took a bite and swallowed it without bothering to chew as Chris paused from eating to ask, "So...uh... Where are you from Sonic?"
Sonic paused with his eating utensil in his mouth, his expression somewhat comical as he regarded her for a moment before pulling the utensil from his mouth and licking his lips and saying, "Mobius."
"Mobius? I've never heard of a place like that," Chris said before asking curiously, "Is it a country?" It was on the tip of her tongue to ask if perhaps 'Mobius' was a lab or zoo in some country that he had possibly escaped from, but stopped herself when it occurred to her that Sonic, as a mutant or whatever- Being asked if he had escaped from a zoo or lab might upset or even anger him. Making him think that she perhaps saw him as less than a sentient being capable of thought, and reason.
That however was not the case with her. Being that Sonic was capable of thought, and reason just like any other human- despite being furry and having quills running along his spine that were nearly as thick as Sonic's fingers- Chris saw him as another (albeit very special) person in need of care and protection from a world that wouldn't understand him and probably seek to destroy him.
Sonic took another, larger, bite of his food and swallowed it whole as well- not really too concerned with choking since his throat worked like a snakes and could expand to meet the requirements of his body when needed. So in truth he could swallow things the size of his foot or more without trouble. Though it wasn't something that he recommended doing often since it left the muscles of his throat feeling a little sore, and shook his head no as he prepared another bite of food.
"Not a country. Nothing here is familiar to me so I can only assume that I've traveled a greater distance than I initially thought," He said as he looked away from his plate just long enough to look out over the lawn and the area around his mate's home before saying, "The plants are different. The tree's aren't like anything I've seen before. The air isn't fresh, nor is the water as clean as it should be. Both have the smell and taste of toxin's. The gravity makes my body feel heavier than steel plates..." Sonic stopped speaking for a moment when he realized what he'd just said revealed a little too much about his body's anatomy and glanced at her to see if she had been paying attention.
If the shell shocked expression was any indication, she'd heard alright. And Sonic felt like kicking himself for speaking so freely so soon. But dammit, she was his mate and had every right to know every small detail about him. Even the things about his anatomy and abilities too. However he wouldn't tell her everything right this moment. He feared that if he did she might reject him outright if she knew everything about him so soon.
"G-Gravity? S-Steel plates?" Chris echoed his words as she tried to wrap her mind around what he had just more or less admitted. And when she finally figured out what Sonic had said, she paled a little bit as her heart sped up in her chest and became a nervous fluttering as she wondered.
Was Sonic an alien?
