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Melody looked relieved for what it was worth. Once their information had been appropriately exchanged, she realized that they were still on their date, and there was still so much to learn. "Have you traveled anywhere yourself? How long have you been awake for?" She would ask more about his family another time for sure, but this wasn't about other people right now, it was meant to be a date.

Inoke was a little taken aback by the girls interest in his repodding incident but maybe it wasn't a common thing? And given some of the divisions it could be another of their weird obsessions. "I was asked if I'd like to in a way that suggested it wasn't really a choice."

That seemed to be the way of things with most of his experiences with being a member of Deus. They asked you very nicely if you'd like to be tortured because it was necessary.

"Sorry, i don't really remember why. It's all kinda fuzzy. I've been a pod for a few years..."

Cee's fingers pinched as she leaned and motioned emphatically, she was a hand-talker, "Our whole ******** life is this place and they don't want us to talk about it?"

Her eye roll was amazingly epic, "Listen, I follow the important rules. You know like keeping my a** out of perma-freeze.."

Cee shook her head and grinned, "Are you like super into the rules?? Ohhh nooo.." She then rested a hand against his arm and whispered loudly, "We're touching."

Henry smiled after Lena and Nick as they walked off to talk together, giving a small wave before turning his attention back to Luka.

"Colors?" He reached up for his hair, running a few brightly colored strands through his fingers so he could look at it. "Dunno, maybe something darker, or with more green. I like the darker teal though." That was already a change from his usual paler blue, and he was enjoying the brightness of it.

"What about you?"

Luka liked looking at her handiwork on Henry. She also liked that in some small and sorta silly way that they matched. It was like they were part of some super secret hair club and it also meant that it wasn’t just her and Lele anymore.

“Why not both? I’m a big fan of purple. Been debating some pastel colors but they take more upkeep.” She wrinkled her nose in thought, tapping her frames thoughtfully. “We can look for some cool dark greens maybe? Anything that’s not um black. Black’s hard to come back from y’know?”

"Ah--" Tommy had opened his mouth to say something, first to the other teen-aged boy (Iskander, his name tag said), but he found himself shutting his mouth, cheeks going a bit pink when he felt the tag taken from his hands and patted in place on his chest.

"Grazie." He mumbled, quietly, before remembering that he was supposed to be attempting to be more bold, to meet new people and, hopefully, make friends. So, he paused, smiled, and said exactly what Nick had taught him.

"Thank you very ******** much!"

Now he was absolutely beaming by the time Cami had come over to them, and he reached for her hand to give it a quick squeeze, letting it slide away as his gaze slid between her and Iskander. Wait, Tomtom?

"Tommy." He corrected, in case the other boy had somehow gotten confused.

Now, Tommy didn't have much by way of a sweet tooth, but he also did not want to be rude.

"Yes." He said, and then, added on, for the second time in two minutes. "Thank you very ******** much!"

"A few places," said Nash. "My family is from Toronto originally, but we moved a little bit. I spent a lot of time in Vancouver, and we did some family vacations to Europe and the Caribbean islands. We mainly stayed in Canada, though."

He gave Melody an easy smile. "A few months now. My brother's been here longer, though. What about you? Been anywhere in the world?"