"Oh, I didn't even see those!" Teagan exclaimed, a bit too enthusiastically for cheap, fake eyelashes. That was part of her natural charm, however, insofar as she had any. She didn't always know when to dial back her enthusiasm, and even if the glee was inappropriate, it still convincingly passed as cheerful. It was hard to find much fault in someone who was consistently happy... though some of her co-workers at the Red Door found it off-putting. The trouble was probably in the consistency. Teagan in the middle of the day was much like Teagan in the early hours of the morning and Teagan late at night. Her natural state seemed to be a ray of fucking sunshine. A happy-go-lucky grin and wide, almost-but-not-quite-vacant eyes even while she was waist-deep in mulch. Or bent into a giant plastic bin from Walmart.
There were things that bothered her, of course. She could be driven to anger, worry, even hysterics over some things. Residue from a spray of chemical fertilizer used by the groundskeeper had put her in a depressive funk for nearly a week shortly after her arrival, and it had taken a long time to track down what exactly had bothered her (Teagan had a difficult time explaining the delicate, sometimes precarious dance of interpreting the world through scents and spores and pheromones; verbal language was so limited), let alone correct it. But that was the thing. There was always a cause. Some outside environmental factor that had made her mood shift. Something that could be remedied. Usually just by a shift in diet.
As a composite entity comprised of a sentient fungus, Teagan was astounding, almost impossible to truly grasp. As a girl, she was rather simple. She responded very well to positive attention, and she wanted to be pretty. "I could by you a pair, too," she offered, stroking a cool, smooth finger over Tatum's wrist. Teagan delighted in the tiny little hairs on the back of the human arm, and wondered -- not for the first time -- if perhaps she should grow some on her own, as well. "We could dress up together."