[The petting actually is coming with a very useful side effect here, and that side effect has a lot to do with distracting Jotaro; the byproduct of that is that, because he's paying attention much less to what Star is doing, Star has more freedom accordingly to follow Polnareff and listen to him as he pleases.
So, for the most part, he's very pliable as Polnareff arranges him, clearly not understanding where this is going, but obediently following along as it unfolds.
And then there is a high-five, which is confusing, and so for a few seconds Star just looks at his hands and Polnareff's, unsure of what he's supposed to do and why.
What follows, then, is interesting: very quickly, his eyes drift to Jotaro, who by this point has recovered enough to remember to make the conscious effort not to cue him. So, finding no direction there, Star's attention slides back to Polnareff and his hands, and he hovers there on a moment of indecision before very tentatively deciding to imitate what Polnareff just did, offering an equally light slap of his own.]
...Ora...?
[He continues to look confused, evidently still lacking some of that "bridge" to understanding that Jotaro had been describing before.]
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So, for the most part, he's very pliable as Polnareff arranges him, clearly not understanding where this is going, but obediently following along as it unfolds.
And then there is a high-five, which is confusing, and so for a few seconds Star just looks at his hands and Polnareff's, unsure of what he's supposed to do and why.
What follows, then, is interesting: very quickly, his eyes drift to Jotaro, who by this point has recovered enough to remember to make the conscious effort not to cue him. So, finding no direction there, Star's attention slides back to Polnareff and his hands, and he hovers there on a moment of indecision before very tentatively deciding to imitate what Polnareff just did, offering an equally light slap of his own.]
...Ora...?
[He continues to look confused, evidently still lacking some of that "bridge" to understanding that Jotaro had been describing before.]