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Another day, another night, another trip to the caferteria. It had become a regular habit of Victor's to go and eat rather late at night, his own reason was similar to Richard's, Victor was still very conscious about his appearance, it was difficult enough for him for him to use a fork with those chest arms, and usually just ate with his hands, and he rather not have anyone watch him eat doing that.

With a shuffling of limbs and standing himself up to open the door, Victor crawled into the caferteria, and saw... Richard? the odd man with the tentacles was unmistakable.

"Evening Richard"

Victor frowned at seeing Richard flinch like that, did he really look that bad? The lizardman knew he did, and it wasn't a pleasant reminder. He crawled his way over to the buffet line, not noticing Richard's chest. Victor was more focused on getting something to eat, and it was a challenge in itself, his body had become much shorter since his last change, but Victor managed.

He hooked the claws of his forelimbs into the metal rail in front of the buffet line, using his chest arms to reach and pull what he could towards him, while balancing on his feet and tail, his extra legs hanging off the floor slightly as he scuttled down the line, grabbing what he needed. Tray, Plate, steak, small red potatoes. Then came the difficult part, getting the tray down off the railing without spilling everything everywhere, the last couple times he had done so ended almost in disaster. Victor glanced towards Richard, he rather not bother the other man...not yet anyway.

Victor did his best to latch onto the tray with both sets of chest arms, gripping it as tight as he could manage with the tiny hands, he had been working on improving his dexertity but still it was difficult to hold onto a marker. Twisting his body, Victor let the railing go, and literally fell to the floor, tray in his small arms and let out a grunt as landed down, the tray hitting the floor, the plate and food on it bouncing in the air before landing back down awkwardly, half the potatoes rolling off on the floor and bumping into Richard's foot, while this time the steak managed to stay on the tray.

With a grumble, Victor crawled towards a table, looking back at Richard.
"How you doing Richard?"

Victor was struggling to get his tray over to a table and dropped it again once Richard suddenly became angry and Snarled at him, The lizardman hadn't seen such animalistic anger since having a run in with a neighbor's dog some time ago.

He was so surprised by Richard's behavior, the sight of Richard's breasts were almost overlooked, in part hidden by the large snout that forced his eyes farther apart.

"What the hell isss wrong with you? No reassson to get angry with me, Jussst asssked how you were" Victor said with a frown as he tried to grab his tray once again and push it towards a table, looking back over his shoulder towards Richard and those quivering, moving tentacles, and noticed Richard's chest that stood out rather plainly. Victor blinked, did Richard just have a change or something? or what was it? maybe thats why Richard was all pissed off.

Whatever the reason Victor went back to struggling to get up to one of the tables, getting the tray finally on the table, but now Victor had to get onto the bench seats in front of the table

"I didn't sssneak up on you, I ssaid hello, asssked how you were doing, and you jussst ignored it or didn't hear me" Victor pulled himself onto the bench to try and eat, having to straddle the bench with his pairs of legs and holding himself against the table with his forelegs, his tail swishing behind him. He looked at his tray, which now had only a couple potatoes left, but he still had the steak, but forgot the knife, not that it be much good to him now. The lizardman held the steak with his chest arms, and used the sharp claws of his foreleg to cut the steak into quarters, pleasantly surprised at how sharp they actually were.

Victor glanced back at Richard, and the arm across the man's chest, and his red face, then looked away, tilting his head to look at his plate of food, not saying anything about the man's chest problem.

"Itsss alright Richard" Victor said, noticing the other man heading towards the door, a part of Victor didn't really care that Richard was leaving, and rather that he did go, so that he eat in peace and not be watched. But Victor also wanted Richard to stay, He believed people should let these changes get between people and cause them to be like strangers.

"Richard, you can ssstay and eat if you want, no need to leave jussst becaussse I gave you a ssscare there"

Victor watched Richard as he sat down and could feel the other man's eyes on his mouth, both of them, and lowered his snout a little, he had improved on being able to talk or eat without having the other mouth move all the time.

"I've been alright, have had better daysss but I'm managing, ssspending more time out of my duplexss, going to the beach or the entertainment room, how about yourssself?" Victor shifted in his seat, it was somewhat uncomfortible to sit on any sort of furnature except the kind he could lay out on, like a bed, couch or lawnchair

The sarcasm didn't go unnoticed, and neither did the open threat of mauling an octopus, as Victor took a piece of steak that he had and put it in his lower mouth, chewing it thoroughly, his teeth were pointed and sharp, and cut though the steak disturbingly easily, his upper mouth twitching slightly as he ate.

"I didn't get a chancsse to sssee the firssst one, think the wind might have blown it off the front ssstep, but can wait to sssee the next one Richard" Victor was curious what could be troubling the other man, but could guess it probably had to do with a certain octopus-man, and whatever problem Richard was having with chest, which looked like the man had breasts.

"at leassst you're doing sssomething Richard...I haven't done much in the way of helping people, exsscept right now sssharing my duplexss with a nocturnal persson named Tommy"