Lockheed was frustrated.
He knew humans had very complex mating rituals, compared to those of his race. In the Flock, if a male was interested in choosing a mate, he would give her some food and sing for her, maybe even touch her and do a little dance. If she was interested, she ate and let him touch her. Then soon, eggs came, and more Flock. It was easy.
Humans, on the other hand, had weird mating rituals. Sometimes, like the wild human Logan, they pretended to mate, spending a night or two together and then leaving each other. That didn't make any sense.
Sometimes they didn't mate at all but stayed together anyway, like Rogue and Remy. Why would anyone do that? You couldn't have eggs that way.
But he knew Kitty by now and knew human mating rituals well enough to know that Toad wanted Kitty as his mate, and Kitty wanted him, too.
Why weren't they mating?
It wasn't because they weren't interested in each other. Kitty was pretending to be sick, now, to keep from having to leave the house. Toad was playing along, too, pretending to worry about her.
It wasn't that another male wanted Kitty. He'd made certain the Toad knew that, several times, speaking the weird language the humans used.
Somehow, Kitty seemed to think that the man wasn't interested in her. That was silly. He gave her food. He gave her a computer. He sang to her. Lockheed could see that he wanted her.
He didn't tell her, though. Lockheed didn't understand that, either. Humans could be oblivious to things like that, so most humans told each other things like that, to make up for their lack of perception. But the man didn't speak up, didn't say he wanted Kitty as his mate.
Of course, he didn't believe that Kitty wanted him. Again, silly. Kitty didn't need him prompting her to seek Toad out these days. She ran to him if he wasn't there when she woke up. She watched him as he moved. She tuned up his hard drives for him. She smelled of desire for him sometimes. Was the man's nose dead?
Maybe Lockheed would just have to tell the blind humans what was plain to see, if they kept being stubborn like this. He would start with Kitty. She would listen to him.