AAAAH! Stop that!

Stop what?

You’re still doing it!

That gross thing where humans indicate internal states by squooshing facial muscles in different configurations.

Stop it! Just keep your face still and tell me how you feel without doing the twitchy muscle blob thing!

Oh Jesus the twitchy parts are moist now!

Your crying also smells bad.

I actually finished a draft of this where he was talking to an alien, but then realized the alien was making facial expressions the whole time.