Link looked at Null with this grin on his face as he watched it. He wasn't afraid when Null touched, he giggled actually as he nodded. "Yeah! That's right, Lincoln!" To Link, this was one of the coolest things ever! The child soon sat down in the floor in front of Null, planning on spending some time with it. When Null pointed to the bear and asked for the noise, Link thought for a moment before trying to mimic the sound of a bear before laughing. "That's close to what a bear sounds like."

Claudia leaned against the door entrance with a smile on her face, sensing that Null would be a good addition for their household at the moment. Link really seemed to like him and Null found him interesting. It was kinda like Null was a new toddler, the being that was curious about everything except that it seemed to have more of a conscious than a toddler did. Claudia, as a scientist and maternal being, really wanted to teach Null the ways of the human world. To show it how to speak and proper actions that humans made while still letting the creature be itself.

Soon enough, Claudia spoke up. "Link, I'm going to get started on dinner. You stay out here with Null and keep it company. He really seems to like you." Link looked back at his mother and nodded with a smile. "Alright, mom, I'll be here!" Claudia gave a nod and kept the door open before heading to the kitchen, getting started on preparing dinner. She made some extra for Null, curious if he would ingest the food properly or not.

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Null blinked for a moment, listening to Link's little attempt at mimicing the bear. It made the noise back, finding it rather entertaining to be able to interact with another person. Plus, it seemed that this human child really liked it, so it was fine, right? Surely it was, since the kid was smiling and laughing. "What is.. 'mom?'" Null asked when it began to overhear Link responding to Claudia. Null did not understand parents and children really, as Null itself did not have either of them in its life. It was a creature that was too strange for this planet, and quite possibly would stand out; gain a lot of unwanted attention. Just the thoughts alone was enough to make anyone worry. To think that Null could be dangerous, a killer creature waiting to strike. Or even something genetically created and sent over from another country? An alien from space, or even some ancient creature from before humanity first took over the planet. All those ideas were quite plausible, but even so, Null would not get special treatment from the outside world at all.

With a unknown creature such as Null however, it also could lead to figuring out what exactly it was. It was a creature made out of some hard material, rock or crystal, sturdy. It had a heart in its head and a brain in its chest. Eyes on its chest, and mouth on its throat; three fingered hands and two toed feet. It was nothing but alien, yet it showed such gentleness and a eagerness to learn. An intelligent creature such as this had to have been either from somewhere unknown or designed by someone. Hell, the creature didn't even have any gender at all, so the thought of repopulating such a strange species was even out of the question.

Lifting its eyes to look at Lincoln and then back down at the bear that it held in its arms, it slowly stood up from the floor. It went over towards the box it had opened, and began putting the stuffed animals back in the box exactly how it had found them, including the black bear. Its quiet little chirping noises continued as it looked at Link curiously, wondering what was going through the child's mind.

Link, as a ten year old, didn't quite know how to explain what a mom was. It had always just been a mom and people knew who she was when he talked about her, knew what place she took in his life anyway. He bit his lip as he thought hard before looking back up at Null."A 'mom' is someone who watches over you and loves you. Like, my Mom loves me and watches over me. She wants me to be safe." Link smiled, proud of how he explained it. That sounded around right, right?

As the two got along, Claudia was making dinner as she thought of some of the things that could happen. Most of them weren't the greatest because of how strange and alien Null was to their race. Not everyone would accept the docile creature, unfortunately. Bad people would want to test him, use it for publicity, and other inhumane things. It made Claudia kinda upset to even think of someone hurting the creature. It didn't deserve that. Claudia had to protect him from the world until she found a way that the world would accept him and not want to hurt him.. That would be a very difficult task.

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