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"That Defect?"
Dr. Addams asks, walking up to the Burning Icewolf on his right.
"He never even passed through this room, he's stayed out in the hall, this entire time... You uh... Mind if I sit here?"

Upon accepting The Burning Icewolf's invitation, Dr. Addams huffs angrily as she sees him get up and leave.
"What, do I stink, or something?..."
She murmurs as she rests her right elbow on the table, leaning her head on the knuckles of her right hand as she sulkily taps her left fingers on the table. After a little bit, she then lifts the lifts the side of the collar of her lab coat, ducks her head into the opening and sniffs herself. She then resumes her previous position with a disappointed sigh and goes back to tapping the table.
I just don't understand...
She thinks to herself.
He can't dislike the way I smell... With this new perfume, he should be all over me... It gets all the men who work here excited, that's for sure... I was so certain that I had gotten the chemistry right... Why isn't it attracting him!?... Well, s**t... I guess it's back to the drawing board... stare

Meanwhile, Veronica appears, hovering behind Mr. Stubbs.
"Hey there, tall, buff and handsome..."
She says, massaging his shoulders.
"Whatch ya doin?" heart

"Not to mention there are too many people nearby... It would be a real problem, if somebody was to just walk in on us..."
Mr. Stubbs thinks to himself, swallowing down his food. He then shrugs off Veronica.
"Getting fresh air..."
He growls, in answer, before taking another bite.

In the other room, as Kayla enters Nura's pub, Jaeger again tries to mess the lab equipment, only to be snapped at and ushered into Nura's pub by Maugrim, followed by Loki; the four Wargs converging on Nura's right, with Kayla sitting at the front of the group, panting and waging her tail.

Meanwhile, Aidar finds Jack's sign in the hall. Picking it up and reading it, he then returns to his seat next to Dr. Addams.
"I could nae find Jack, he seems tae have left."
He says as Edelweiss sits down next to both of them on Aidar's right and Dr. Addams's left, while Fenris now sits to Aidar left.
"But I found this..."
He finishes, placing Jack's sign on the table.

"Just this..."
Aidar says, holding up Jack's sign in his right hand.
"I want the food that jack agreed to give me!"
A spread of food on platters then appears on the table in front of him, consisting of the front half of a roast boar that has not been gutted, a rack of beef ribs, Peking Duck, shrimp fried rice with ham and egg in it, Stir Fry with sliced sausage, beef chunks, water chestnuts, baby corn, pea pods, chipped carrots, mung beans, broccoli fleurets, cabbage, and peanut sauce; a large bowl of 10 pieces of every kind of sushi imaginable, a large bowl of egg chow mien, and a pair of unbroken chopsticks to eat it with. Aidar sets the sign down to the left on the table and then takes the shop sticks in his hands, at first as if to break them, but then releases his lefthanded hold on them.
"Let me tell ye a little story..."
He says to Dr. Addams, tapping on the table with the chopsticks.
"Ah ad a friend, once..."
He begins.
"A... Perfect friend.... Nae somebody who be the perfect friend, but a friend, a Human who was... Perfect... or at least he seemed tae be... Much like Luminova, He was unbelievably patient and never had any problems understandin anybody, even if others around them did... But, unlike Luminova, though he always be lookin for peaceful solutions, he was nae pacifistic and had nae reluctance tae fight... In battle, I can only describe him as the perfect warrior... Maybe it was pride, or arrogance, or maybe he just somehow knew that he was superior to his opponents; but he never expressed any emotion on the battlefield... Neither anger, hatred, fear, or joy... He was like a machine... Calm... Calculatin... and only dealt just enough damage tae incapacitate his opponents... Nae more, nae less... All the time I knew him, he remained undefeated... Yet, despite his lack of emotion in battle, at other times, he was most eager tae laugh... He seemed tae ave a love o life an found everythin tae be fascinatin, like a well behaved but curious child, but with a mature understandin of things. An, he never seemed tae make mistakes and his guesses were highly accurate,,, We grew close over time, the best of friends... Until the day that G.H.O.S.T. reared its ugly head... On that day, my friend was divided intae two separate beings... One of them joined G.H.O.S.T., and the one that stayed with us has shown himself tae be incomplete... Flawed... Weaker than he once was whole, prone tae mischievous and immature behavior, and with a tendency tae talk tae himself an speak complete and absolute nonsense, as well as lie, when he used tae speak only truth."

"*gasp* Any air *wheeze* without you *gasp* Is fresh...*hack*."
Mr. Stubbs responds in irritation. He then takes another bite of his sandwich and starts to pass the south side of the table.
"Now's not the time to move in on her..."
He thinks to himself as he heads for the hallway exit.
"I'll have to wait a little longer, until the time is right..."

Having actually been aware of what Mr. Stubbs had been thinking all along, Luminova mentally considered letting the Grimalkin know she knew of his possible plans to bully her, but has instead decided to leave, figuring his goals not to be of any of her affair. Having finished looking at the isotope samples, she then turns right and passes behind Dr. Addams, Aidar, and the Wargs.
"I'll be in the library we passed on the way here."
She says, as she heads for the southeastern door.
"I'm going to do some reading up on this radiation and see if I can learn any useful information..."
She then exits out into the hall and begins to back-track their route.

"You mean to tell me that JACK is one of the halves of this friend you speak of..."
Dr. Addams concludes, lifting up her head and lowering her right hand.

Seeing Aidar's use of Jack's sign, Aileen comes up along the south side of the table followed by Snowflash and making an Ice chair for herself, sits down and takes the sign into her right hand, once Aidar has finished with it. She then holds the sign up says.
"It's Aileen... Ah'd like the food that Jack offered me... All o it!"
Another spread then appears in front of her, made up of a large plate of haggis, a platter with a roast leg of mutton, a large bowl of chow mien like Aidar's, a large plate half loaded with steamed red cabbage and the other half with scalloped potatoes with cheese, a casserole pan of quiche with bacon on top, a banana split, both western tableware and a fresh pair of chop sticks.
Snowflash looks over the spread and then dives her snout into the quiche.
"Hey! Nae! bad, Snowflash!"
Aileen exclaims, using her right hand to smack Snowflash on the snout with her chopsticks.
The Sicklehawk then pulls back, shaking her head in irritation and hisses.
"Di nae be rude."
Aileen says calmly, breaking the chopsticks. She then uses them to pinch out a large chunk of the quiche in her right hand and holds it up to Snowflash, who snorts in rejection.
"Now, Snowflash, this be ME food!"
Aileen says sternly.
"If ye want me tae share it with ye, then it will have tae be this way, tae make sure that I actually get any..."
The Sicklhawk then agrees and takes the bit of quiche from Aileen.
"Di nae just swallow it down, it'll go too fast. Enjoy the flavor, for a bit..."
Snowflash does as instructed, bouncing the food around on her tongue inside her mouth for a time and giving a pleasured purr, before finally swallowing it down. She then opens her jaws and stands there, awaiting more food like a hungry baby bird. Aileen giggles and gives her another pinch of Quiche, before eating a pinch of the potatoes, herself.
"Aye, that's exactly what I be tellin ye..."
Aidar tells Dr. Addams as he breaks his chop sticks. He then looks at his spread, then back to Dr. Addams.
"Would ye like some?"
He asks, offering his chop sticks to her in his large hairy right hand.
"Ah've got plenty, at least enough fer two... Ah've got a very big appetite, bein a wolf and all... just feel free tae help yerself tae as much as whatever he want..."

Mr. Stubbs had been stopped in his tracks when Luminova unexpectedly left. He then proceeds to follow her through the door. Stepping out into the hall, he looks back and forth and finding Luminova to nowhere in sight, gives a nod of approval and stepping to the left of the door, leans against the wall and resumes eating his sandwich.