[ He rolls his eyes at the words "super safe," but Bruno's next little off-hand joke has Alberto wheeling on him with the most shocked and baffled expression yet. Is that what he thought he was gonna do...?! Stab him?! It takes Alberto pause, staring at Bruno incredulously as if silently asking "seriously, dude?!", basically doing a double-take with a couple false starts before he finds words to Bruno's next question. What a weird grownup... He gives Bruno one last sly stare with narrowed eyes as he begins, making it exaggerated enough to show it's comical, but regains a more normal tone and expression again after a beat as he starts to explain. Just shake it off, Alberto, just shake it off... ]

Uhhhhh— y-yeah, sort of... My boss back home showed me how. Well— he didn't show me, exactly — since, y'know, he's got one arm. This isn't his hobby, eheh... But, Massimo's the one who told me to try it. So, I've just kept it up! I like it. Like, when I'm bored. It's fun to make little "somethings" like this — I dunno what you'd call it, it's just a, uh— ehh, una cosina...!

[ He waves the half-made little rat at Bruno demonstratively, gesturing as he speaks as always, as he lands on a term for his handiwork; albeit, the term he lands on is in Italian, but a close enough cognate with Spanish "cosita" to pique Bruno's ears, probably. Just another weird little almost-overlap between them... Many types of mutual intelligibility developing here, it seems, bit by bit. ]