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"Listening or eavesdropping?" He chuckle and was about to go into something else when she presented his PAID tag...then snatched it away and put it out of sight behind her back with a smile. His own grin widened. "You know that I want that." He watched her with a trained gaze that hinted he would not hesitate to go after her for it, or to fight dirty. Namely, tickling her. "Please?"


A giggled left the acclaimed Dr. Jelena Trevale. Must be her birthday because James didn't often present humor to anyone. He must be in a good mood. "Then I shall make sure to wear rubber gloves as I take you apart. Or I can short you out before hand." Echo her project may be but she wasn't without knowledge of other fields of study.

Then she wagged a finger at him like a mother scolding a child. "Now now James, you know that no one touches that keyboard but me. Not even Erik and this is the man I trust to fetch my coffee and not spit in it."

"Because without it I can't see you, and without it, I can't get hold of you when I need you. And when that happens, I get sad on the inside as well as the outside the proclaimed, Renny slumps as you like to call them." A wider smile, showing teeth now. "Then I would loose my position as head annoyance of the fleet." He stepped closer to her, fingers on one hand twitching to get hold of that tag.

"James, you hack into things for fun. Never know if you snap one day and decided to hack and destroy all kinds of things...or leave little notes everywhere...like old post it note methods." She seemed lost in the notion of post its for a moment before she regained herself. "Me and Erik are nothing alike James." Okay to them it seemed that way anyway.

Then another smile that was uniquely hers. "Offering help now? Hm, is that a cover just to get back and see the wonderful little creatures." Okay...so they weren't really little...only a few of them were. But a look at her watch told her all sorts of things. Good thing it told her time as well. "Actually, it's about feeding time. Care to try your luck?" A part of her did find it humorous to watch others among the Echoes that gave most of their trust to her.

He grinned with his victory as he snatched the wristlet out of the air, fumbling it a few seconds, and held is possesively for a moment before snapping it around his wrist to join next to this other two. "Making up my mind would only dampen the air of annoyance and happiness I can breed." A tilit of his head as she expanded on his name or dropped letters off, she was one of the few to do it. "Well Jessica said she can have me on the workbench in seventytwo hours if I get my plans straight, she''s going a custom job for me so I just have to write up what I want."

He reached a hand out a mussed her hair again just for the fun of it. Rennell poked at his PAID tag a little then, happy as a school boy over finally getting it back. No, he really didn't like being thrown or kept out of places simply because the rest of the Fleet didn't share his particular enthusiasm for life. "Yeah so no I can stop being a big baby about it and do what I need to do before Jessica or even worse, Moira comes after me to drag me off..."

A swipe of her PAID tag got her access to the back labs...of course her tag got her into everything, even the more secretive rooms and the like that even Erik wasn't allowed access in alone. Stepping into the hall, looking back to make sure he didn't get locked out by timed out doors, she smiled seeing he was fine as she proceeded to lead the way.

She took the stairs as she reached the enclosures, the catwalks above offering quicker routes to any of the enclosures she chose, but also allowed her an easy view into everything else. Each habitat was busy as usual at feeding time, a few techs assigned to every one, providing the food of each Echo. Usually food was served up as it might be in a zoo, other times it was alive and free range, allowing the natural hunting in the beasts instincts to be practiced.

Jelena's main concern, besides her new Peryton, was for her Fenrirs at the moment. The alpha pair of the little pack had in fact procreated on their own, producing two pups. Quite an accomplishment and quite the credit for Jelena's field of expertise. However, made those two very territorial. Often she found herself having to separate mother and pups from the others of the pack and vise verca. A trying time indeed.

And that was where she was leading James, taking an offshoot of stairs from the catwalk that lead down to the Fenrir enclosure. Hitting ground, making sure James was still in tow, she reviewed some information on a computer panel mounted on the enclosures door. Seems they were on free range feeding today. Of course with pups around...Jelena was a little anxious...it was never fun to see Fenrirs go after one another, what with so much power behind them.

She was clicking through a few screen, checking in the logs of who had been there recently. Not even Erik had been by today...seems others were lacking her courage to face the beasts eye to eye and walk away intact. A look over her shoulder to James. "Well, the alpha female has been rather territorial over her pups as any wolf, but that makes trouble for the rest of the pack. Unfortunately that has made them all jumpy and quick to anger. Scraps and the like, asserting the pecking order. I'd simply like you around for reassurance."

A few more key punches before she logged herself and James into the system, registering them as being the ones at the enclosure. Then she punched a code, swiped her tag and the door made a noise before sliding open and she stepped in. No she wasn't scared to stand in there while wolves went on the hunt. She motioned James in then made sure the door closed and secured behind him.

It was a short stride to what seemed to be a little recess in the wall that acted like a corral for the four legged food that the Fenrirs often took to chasing. Mostly cattle in cases, as was today's menu. Another code, more swiping to open more doors to let the four legged prey out before she walked back over to James. "My mind seems to be getting full recently. Stress mostly I assume. But you know how I worry, especially as I enter an area in my study that is wholly new to even me. Call it a mother's worry if you will."

"Erik does his fair share of work, and you have other things to do in the other projects as well. I can't hog you all to myself." She paused a moment, pulling her OODDS out of her pocket and plugging them in then turning on the nifty little device, pulling up display data on Fenrir behavior. "I'm as bad as an over protective mother I'm afraid. But I can see where you're coming from...maybe I should put in for a week or two off..." Take time off? Never had the over worked doctor Trevale done so before.

A look to James a moment at voice change before it registered to what he was doing. Sometimes his hacking was all too useful. Other times it could make one paranoid and restless with worry. But she had learned to accommodate to it. "Really?" A raised eyebrow at that. Though what intrigued her was that they were out of the ever before constant presence of their mother. She normally would not leave them for anything, not even the hunt. "Is it Neroh, or did they allow him to hunt?." Low man on the totem pole so to speak was the particular beast. The Variant was the littlest except for the pups and he only had them by two feet.