[He knows, he knows, just... Give them a moment and they'll calm down once you're out of the aggro zone; they're simple creatures, they'll come at least look at the fruit once they are satisfied that the loud thing is no longer being loud and is in fact a more respectable distance away.

Alexei is just...going to kneel on the ground again, settling back on his heels with Dein Nomos out and across his lap. It's shiny, and so is the apatheia in it, and the snakes tend to pay attention to shiny once they notice it.

When he speaks to Yeager his voice is even and relatively quiet.]

Well done, that actually wasn't completely terrible; I'm almost impressed.

[...he is probably fucking with you, but it is true that it wasn't completely terrible.]

Keep it down if you don't want to upset them.