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Tsukai was almost hopping towards Pueblo before the little girl had spoken, and with a gigantic "peep!!!" he hop/fluttered towards her. Ha! His friend was back!! Hope, on the other hand, sat straight. Her floofy tail swept around to cover her paws as she tilted her head at Pueblo, her green eyes blinking widely as she pondered the situation. The little-one liked her... and she seemed nice enough. Experimentally Hope rose to her feet and stepped towards Pueblo, cautiously sniffing at the girl's ankles, walking around her curiously.

Kiro had started at Pueblo's voice, glancing up to see her and Fae, his face breaking into a smile. "Fae, Bobo!" he said, lowering the cover of the book to the table as he spoke. "Haven't seen you two in a while. How've you been?"

At Fae's question, Kiro nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just some light reading," he said with a chuckle, indicating his textbook and his notes. "You know, same old, same old."

Hope sniffed at Fae's hand as it was offered, then repeating the gesture with Pueblo as the Aerandir offered her hand. Purring, the kitten rubbed her cheek along the side of Pueblo's hand, whafting her tail around behind her. The girl smelled friendly! Tsu peeped approvingly from Pueblo's shoulder. He knew they'd like each other! Because he only made friends with great people! And great minds and all that...!

Kiro nodded, craning his neck a little to watch the three interact. He was getting attatched to Hope in all honesty. "Yeah, she found her way into my room somehow... dunno if she belongs to anyone, but we're putting her up for a little while. See if anyone's missing her." He paused before admitting, "It's nice having another cat about."

He paused, continuing to watch them all for a while, before looking up, seeming to have remembered something. "Actually Fae, would you and Bobo mind doing me a favour...?"

"Well," Kiro motioned to his open notebook with a pen, raising his other hand to scratch thoughtfully at an ear. "I'm supposed to be getting basic details about all the Aerandir. Simple things like age, weight, flight ability and so on. I was just wondering if you both had time to go through that with me right now?" As an after-thought, he added, "It won't take long. Five minutes at most?"

Hope simply purred as Pueblo stroked her. She must be like the other tall one, he stroked her like this too... She then wound in between the girl's legs, purring a little louder as she did so. Tsu remained seated where he was, peeping encouragingly. He liked his friends to make friends - then he could play with them both at once! That made twice the fun! Happily, he fluffed out his feathers.

Getting to his feet, Kiro went to get his trusty tape measure and scales, bringing them back to Pueblo. "Okay... could I get you to step on these for me Bobo?" He smiled reassuringly at the girl before addressing her guardian.

"Well, technically I'm still supposed to be at university. It's kind of given some green lights by way of "Research Rat"." He paused thoughtfully. "I think it's just data gathering to watch trends. I can't really say for sure though, I just got given the job."

Tsukai floofed his feathers out again as he sat on Pueblo's shoulder, nuzzling her affectionately. He'd missed his partner in crime! He peeped to Hope, who was, by now, looking up at him. She mewed questionningly, then settling herself on the floor lazily as she watched Kiro doing whatever it was he was doing.

Kiro smiled a little at how uncertain Pueblo seemed to be. Keanu had practically jumped onto the scales, an obvious difference in character. He glanced down to read the numbers. "You see these Bobo?" he asked, pointing to the display with a pencil. "These tell me how much you weigh." He paused before glancing up and realising Tsu was still perched on her shoulder, watching everything with a curious gaze.

"Well," he corrected himself as he stood and held out a hand, which Tsu hopped on to. "Before it was telling us how much you and Tsu weighed, and now it's telling us how much you weigh by yourself." He jotted down the number in his notebook before reaching for the tape measure. "Just one more thing now Bobo," he said. "Could I get you to stand up real straight and tall, so I can use this," he indicated the rolled up tape measure in his hand, "to tell me how high you are?"

Kiro couldn't help but grin a little at her inquisitiveness. "It's a tape measure Bobo," he said after her was done - jotting the measurement into his notebook. He unrolled it a little to show her. "See these marks here? They're measurements of distance. It means that I can count how many of these small spaces you are tall."

He then rolled the tape meausre up again and picked up the scale, meaning to return them to the cupboard he had found them in. "Thanks guys, I think I can fill in the blanks myself. Time to say bye, Tsu." He said to his shoulder-passenger, who responded with a loud peep, hopping to flutter onto Pueblo's head, give her a quick nuzzle, and then hop back to Kiro again.

Quickly the boy returned the tools to the cupboard before turning to glance at the other feline in the room, seeing her in the process of grooming herself diligently. "C'mon Hope, you too." He paused before giving Fae and Pueblo a little wave. "See you guys later, okay?"

Lazily, the kitten got to her feet to follow the small entourage as they made their way down the corridor.

Kiro walked into the main area with his own note in hand. He glanced over all the notices on the board, glancing at Yakobi's and Syrenrei's with a smile. He had something to go give to them shortly. But first he was going to pin up a notice of his own. Tsu floated around Kiro curiously. It was the first time he'd been outside like this, drawn after Kiro by the piece of quill pen in the boy's pocket. It was scarey... but nothing had gone wrong just yet...



After pinning the note up, the two went to deliver their parcels.