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Cody stood in the corner, scowling as his mother grabbed a couple books she wanted to read while leaving him in the childrens section. There were kids sitting around reading, but all of them gave him weird looks upon seeing his wings and feathery hair. Thus, the shunned weird kid, in their eyes, was left to sulk in the corner. There was nothing interesting to take, besides the pen on the secretary's desk, but that was attached to a metal string thing that looked rather impossible to break.

So there he was, standing in a corner, bored and glaring at everyone. Irritable was a good word to describe his mood, since his mother was keeping a better eye on him now after the museum incident. He couldn't do ANYTHING without her asking what he was doing or telling him that stealing was bad. Pah, it wasn't stealing, just taking without asking and claiming as his own. Finders keepers.

Cody blinked as he saw another spawn enter, looking rather shy and out of place as well. He thought it was a female, until the hybrid wandered over and spoke. Ooh... the toddler was male with really pretty hair, not a girl. "My name? I am Cody. You here t' get books too?" he asked, smiling slightly. Whispers and the feeling of eyes upon the two made the toddler turn and glare at the children whispering about them.

"Follow, get away from them," the toddler commanded, walking right past them and into a distant aisle of books, out of sight of the other children. "Better, don't have t' worry 'bout stares. Hair is pretty," Cody commented once Édes had followed him into the aisle of books. It was nice, actually, to be somewhere quiet and away from the groups of staring children at last.

Cody giggled softly as Édes said his wings and hair were way better. "No, your wings are! They are feathery and soft," he replied, though stretched his wing out so Édes could see it better. "But... Your hair is curly, mine is just pink," he replied, then shrugged, as if the matter of who was cooler was minor to him.

"So you here with dad? I here with mom. She won't let me go anywhere anymore," Cody added, crossing his arms irritably. He hated how he was kept in the house, unable to go anywhere new or meet anyone new. It was rather lonely and boring, an irritating duo that got rather old after a while.

Cody admired Édes wings, wishing to touch the feathers that adorned them. "Can I touch too?" he asked, meaning his wings.

"Hm? No, guard peoples took necklace for Lulu away and mummy said it not nice to take things. I didn't take it, she asked for it," the toddler grumbled softly, having also heard the lady to tell them to be quiet. "Hm? No, I don't, cept for mummy and Ary, but Ary not nice and don't like playing..." he added, pouting a bit.

Cody grinned and reached out, stroking the gray feathers and admiring how soft the felt. Upon hearing Édes feelings on stealing, however, the toddler only sighed. "Can't help it. Sin is greed. What you?" he asked, trying to get off that subject. People were always telling him that stealing was bad, but the truth was that if he tried to go against his need to steal, he either got a giant headache or ended up being moody.

"You play with me? Yes, we can be friends," Cody replied, grinning excitedly. He was always excited when gaining new friends, especially ones he could get feathers from.

Cody nodded, finally realizing why he felt like he needed a nap. It was Édes doing it and his sleepy aura thingy. "I hope you get lots of friends later too," he replied, smiling. Édes was nice, like Ebony when she babysat him while his mother went to work.

"It ok. And we can... I don't know. What can we do that quiet?" he muttered, thinking. There had to be something they could do. Hide-and-seek was out of the question, since they could get lost or in trouble. And with how mad his mother had been when he had taken the necklace at the museum, he couldn't afford to get into trouble again.

Cody grinned, liking the idea of them reading together. Or at least, looking at the pictures together while they waited for their parents to finish whatever they were doing. "Let's go find book, then," he suggested, turning and walking to the edge of the aisle, glaring at the kids who turned to look at him. Upon seeing the glare, they promptly returned to whatever they were doing or moved away to escape the glare.

"Let's go," he muttered, heading to the book shelves that held picture books for toddlers. The bigger books didn't interest him much, since they had a lot of big words in them and often smelled funny. They rarely had pictures too, which was rather boring in his opinion.

Cody giggled softly and nodded. "Sure," he muttered, then looked around for a place to sit. There was an area full of small bean bag chairs that was rather empty. "Sit over there?" he asked, pointing to the suddenly empty area. It seemed like the kids didn't want to be anywhere near them, like they were sick or... something.

Which he was glad for. He didn't like they way they stared at them or whispered about how weird they looked. It was rather... well, demeaning to be thought of so lowly. Oh well, he could FLY, they couldn't. He managed to take something from a museum... sort of, and THEY couldn't. So he wins and they fail. At least, that was how his mind pictured things in making him feel a little better about the whole thing.