Her hand held out to him, Cameron hesitantly reached out to take hold of it. "Um," was all he could muster at first as he tried to remember the hand shapes and their individual meanings. Sloane's hands were small; face up in his palm, the tips of her fingers didn't quite reach the second joint. The callouses were smaller and not as rough as his own, and they ran across in a band between the first and second finger joints.

"You've got square-shaped palms," he said eventually, with a tentative glance up at her face. "It means you're energetic and enjoy being busy. Surprising," he explained, a smile spreading on his face. "You've got short fingers as well. You can be impatient, but you have a lot of interests. You might not be an expert in one specific subject, but you dabble in a handful of subjects." All of that was right, wasn't it? If everything fit so perfectly, he might as well write his essay on Sloane.

(Briefly he considered that it would be easier and more entertaining than palm-reading.)

"Short palms and short fingers make Earth hands. People with them are reliable and easy to get along with, but they have their violent moments just as the Earth does."

(Yep. This was becoming a Sloane essay in his head. Fast.)

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