[ Oh, right- While the people here hadn't batted an eye at her slang, she supposes other off-worlders might not be as familiar. ] Just a casual way of addressing someone. You're dude, Snom's dude, and so on.

[ He is very good, she would say. Granted, she couldn't even come up with a name so the bar is set pretty low. ]

Oh, yeah? Good that you got friends from home. [ Rose doesn't expect to meet anyone she knows; of course, if what happened before she woke up here wasn't just an awful nightmare... That's probably for the best.

At the question, Rose pokes the tender part of her Snom. It gives a startled noise and wiggles against her shoulder with eyes shut. ] That part is. The ice though... It's like a little shell, almost? That's not. It's just cold and spiky.