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The little one, dark of skin like the Adult, though with a head of thick orange hair and long animalistic ears was beeming from ear to ear. He was skipping along, with wide swinging arms as he swerved back and forth in the space between the Succubus, and the Guardian.

He was wearing a puffy, green winter, down jacket. One that was definately too big for him, wearing what was supposed to be a simple coat as a long trench coat, with his sleeves waving around past his hands with every little swing he made.

"He's going to be soft..." Yi Jen Ro muttered. He had been... grumbling about such things the whole time. From the moment he showed up at the Shack, asking Onii to take Garrick on a tour of "City Food". The kid seemed quite excited. In truth he had been asking about it since Onii had 'fed' him last time.

Yi Jen Ro had found something much like he had worn normally. A shirt, black, short sleeved, black jeans, tennis shoes.

"Feet hurt..." he muttered. He did seem to hate wearing shoes.

Yi Jen Ro was grumbling, even as he opened the door and stepped inside. He seemed hunched over, shoulders up and tense, eyes flicking around constantly, almost leaning forward, weight on the balls of his feet, his hands in front of him, rather than towards the side.

No mistaking he was tense. The comparison to a caged animal was perfectly accurate.



Garrick however, had a completely different reaction. He stopped his skipping with one double foot STOMP right in front of the counter/podium where Onii was taking care of business. He was still all smiles, his arms waving back and forth still despite standing in place.

When Onii turned to him, he jumped up again turning mid air and stomping down on the ground again. He held his arms up, half of the sleeves still hanging down as they went past his hands.

"Op! Op!"

"ZAAA!" Little Garrick cheered as he was picked up. He plopped forward, collapsing on Onii, tucking his head over her shoulder so he could peer around at everything that was behind Onii... meaning he was going to miss out spotting the new arrivals. But he seemed quite happy.

"... not for many years..." Yi Jen Ro answered. However, it sounded a bit uncertain as he looked around.

ALERT!

Tyler leened over, taking shelter behind Ancelin, mostly, from the line of sight of the other two. He leaned again, close to Ancelin's ear so he could whisper, "Who are they?"

His voice seemed to have raised an octive during this little encounter. And you could almost hear the shaking in his knees as he looked over Ancelin's shoulder towards the new arrivals.

"... Crazy Woman..." Yi Jen Ro muttered, seeing Ancelin once more. The third time they met now, and not a single moment of any of the meets so far had gone well.

"What is she?" Tyler whispered to Ancelin. Definately Not Human, he could see that. And for whatever reason, he was still quite nervous despite the introductions being passed. His hands gripped tight on his plate while he kept his eye on Onii.

"... they're gonna kill me."

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"... that's exactly what I don't want Garrick becoming," Yi Jen Ro muttered. Directed of course at Tyler. He was scared witless over a simple introduction. He was pasty skinned, with about no muscle. He had no courage what so ever hiding behind a crippled woman.

"City Softness. See that Garrick?"

Garrick of course couldn't see. He was looking over her shoulder. Though he did try to twist around to look at what was going on. But Onii's hold on him would make that a perilous, difficult maneuver.

Tyler himself flinched at the exchange, and was more than happy to turn his back towards them as Ancelin did. He stuck close to her, but seemed hesitant, as he debated mentally between trying to help her out with the gathering of food or not. You could almost see the gears turning in his head, debating back and forth what would happen.

"ABAVYFANG!" Garrick cried out quite happily as Onii passed on the instructions. His hands waved over the entirty of the buffet table, nearly slipping out of Onii's grip in his excitement.

Yi Jen Ro just shook his head at the whole display. He was keeping quiet of the whole affair, more than happy to wash his hands of that insane blue haired lady.

So while everyone else was busy... he found his way towards the meat section, loading up his plate with as many, and as many types of dead animal as he could find until it was piled as high as his head.

Tyler stood up on his toes, almost spilling his plate. His was 'fairly balanced' as well. A few pieces of shirmp, a small cut of salmon steak, a bit of salad, a dinner roll. Nothing too fancy, even his salad was fairly bland, the only thing he added to it being a bit of grated chedder cheese.

He finally spotted one. And just one. It was off in the corner, a fairly large booth. Sure, there were tiny tables out there, but they were all in aisles and he personally hated having fat guys wander past and whack him in the back of the head with their elbows.

"Over there... might even sit with your sister." he suggested. That and unlike the Aisle tables it had enough room to park An's walker without tripping everyone up.



Garrick wiggled about in Onii's arms. So much STUFF. So little room on that tiny plate she was carrying around. Didnt' they have bigger ones? Bah. Garrick's face was losing it's smile, screwing into a frown as he struggled to make his choice.

He wiggled about again, pointing to the first thing that caught his eye, something that "looked weird". A bit of Fried Chicken. And again at a massive dinner roll. And again at that pile of "Unnatural" Macaroni and Cheese that Ancelin snubbed.


Yi Jen Ro shook his head. Took him all of 5 seconds to load up it seemed. He held the plate up to his face, eyeballing the meat he had loaded on before deeming it "decent" and lowering it back down.


"Don't spoil the kid," he warned Onii.

"Need the protein," Yi Jen Ro answered Onii. He hardly seemed phased by her nagging, or the raspberry. He just sauntered over, waiting for Onii and the little one to finish up.

"Plants are plentiful and easily scavenged. Meat however, is not."

It had been a few days since he had a proper bit of meat, after all. And he wasn't going to pass up the rarity when he had the chance.


Garrick sniffed at the plate, even if it was too far for him to actually smell it. His face screwed up tight in a sour frown, sticking out his tongue at the "Weird" and "Disgusting" looking greenery she had plopped on his plate.

"Ooo! Ooo!" seemed he was excited. He was pointing at a different "Greenery" hoping to get it to replace that weird stuff. The Greenery? Some young bananas that hadn't quite turned completely yellow yet, sliced in half over by the produce.


Of course Tyler complied. Within about .5 seconds of asking he'd have a hand on her plate, balancing it from a strong grip on the edge of it, taking a step aside and behind Ancelin so she'd have complete room to motor on by with her walker.

However, his eyes were towards the floor, not really watching Ancelin other than enough awareness to follow along behind her and not trip over her. His eyes kept rolling around, as if he was searching for something down there on the ground.