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"Or in other words, you get through your work too fast and too easily and are bored, so you're butting into Echo because you're fed up with Catalyst." Insightful little Erik, wasn't he? And a look to Jelena. "And I didn't call you fat. That was a hypothetically posed thing and we agreed, that hypothetical doesn't count, remember?"

"Touche'." Though she looked to James again with a slightly again skeptical look. "I think your team would want to wring my neck. I mean look at the damage you took the last time you were involved with the Echoes for practically the whole day. And personally I know that Jessica can hurt me."

"True, since the cutback there has been a great decrease in Ingenuity all around. But who knows, maybe it won't stay shut down forever. I mean there has to be something besides the military involvement ban that Metamorphosis could help with. I personally thing just too many people are hesitant to bring up things to Radiance high ups."

She tilted her head, instead of shrugging and then nodded. "Well if you haven't noticed James, your head is right at perfect kicking/clawing/biting height for the Echoes to do such actions comfortably.

Erik gave a gruff chuckle. "I'm sure I could hit you in the head hard enough to cause an issue. Quick, give me a desk...or throw you in an Echo enclosure tied to me. I'm sure we'll have loads of fun then, won't we?"

"Well they have a right to be worried if you really look at it. I mean, we've basically eliminated money up here. We can't pay fines if we're sued, and I'm sure what little governmental influence we have will drop us like a hot rock if that happened." She sighed. "I hate controvery...."

Then that aloof look. "Of course they're also trying to prevent people from thinking like they did when the Project first came out and people thought that they could get whatever they want and the like."

Erik rolled his eyes. "You being bigger don't mean a thing. Sometimes that a disadvantage in itself James. You should know that should' you?" Turning from them both he took to his target practice again, honing those rarely used skills. Besides, he was working on his own precautions against the Echoes seemingly innate dislike of him.

"Ah I see, you''re not one who''s easily idle. And you give me a hassle about it..." She shook her head and crossed her arms again. "I guess I can tolerate you around the Project area more often than not." Though then she got an amused look. "Though I''m sure Catalyst will fight me for your free time. They want to use you for their little tests and I want to use you for multipurpose things. Oh I can just see the angry emails sent between us Project Leaders."

Erik looked over his shoulder to James with a rather annoyed look. "This is Fleet issue...and my aim is fine. Not all of us need exactly precise aim you know like you do. And I haven''t indeed practiced in a good few months."

Erik caught the overtly done gun and looked it over with the innate air of the scientist that he truly was...security was more like a hobby for him over anything else. "Nice...if you're looking to kill people or perhaps cause destruction." Another look over before he tossed the gun back to James. "Of course I shoot to wound or shoot to scare, don't kill, don't cause damage. Usually don't need excessive force."

Jelena looked quite surprised at it. Like Erik, she had a Fleet issued weapon as well. Carried it strapped to her boot under her pant leg. But the impressive piece of military equipment was quite the no no these days. "Better make sure no one high up catches you with that thing." Then another look to him. "I do relax other than sleep." Sure she did.

"I daydream." First thing that popped in her head and it was true. Sure, she worked herself to the bone but more often than not when she was in the middle of being tied up in work for a good five hours already, you could catch her sitting there, chin in her palm, elbow on the table, just daydreaming away. About what? Well no one besides her knew.

Erik shook his head again. "You know what...you're just too much sometimes. I'm surprised that Radiance doesn't have a camera trained on you or a little follow around guy with you at all times." And of course he had to roll his eyes at Jelena as well as she went about coming up with answers. "Does that scientifically count as relaxation?"

"Only because the military isn't what it used to be. If you ask me they've gone a little lack." He shrugged and put his gun in his ankle holster and he shrugged. "Personally I think that every one of the high ups are just as cautious of anyone. I remember once they put Trevy on ban from Radiance and she had to stay 'quarantine' in the Project zone. I have never seen her more pissed off."

"I hated that week...it was just a little bite...wasn't like I was going to get rabies and go on a maiming spree." She shook her head and sighed, hated that memory of hers. "And see, day dreaming counts as relaxing. And only about sixty-two percent of the time it's Echoes."