[She tries to shake it confidently, look as normal as possible. Ford was never really worried about her not... human-ness, even though she was plenty wary at their first meeting that he wouldn't want to talk to her for it. She's gotten lax as the months have gone on in Eway, but it's easy to pick up the self-deprecation again. Easy to be worried. So when the handshake has obviously gone on long enough, she breaks it, still trying to smile.]

Yeah! I'm sorry about, uh...

[She tries first putting her fingertips on her chest, motioning to her tail, and then just sort of... gesturing to all of her.]

All this. Ford mentioned your world, uhm, d-doesn't usually have nonhuman things. Or, uhm, wasn't supposed to. You were studying it. He, uh, I mean, I read his journal last month. I never saw anything like, uh, l-like that in my world.

[She almost, almost said 'after our date', and had to stop herself, because oh god that's too much information ANYWAY. She's blushing a bit, still self-conscious, and takes the opportunity to quickly point out some cleared workspaces.]

So, uhm, my m-main work is in uh, robotics, and uhm, I went over to s-see Ford earlier and took some measurements to build, uhm, s-something new. Thankfully, uh, the closets will give you anything you want, so f-finding material isn't an issue! Which is nice, because we can work with, uh, whatever we can think of, for the m-most part.