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Well, maybe he would. At least Nita could make herself a bit more presentable. "We don't have much time... Have a seat, and I'll try to get ready." She handed the note back to Lauren and over to her dresser.

After a few moments of rustling through drawers, Nita found a reddish wrap-around skirt (so she had brought one after all!) and a clean tanktop that matched it well enough. She disappeared into the bathroom to brush her hair out and get dressed.

Just before 8 o'clock she emerged dressed with her hair hanging loose to her waist. She had to wear the skirt low, her tail sticking out the top, but it wasn't too uncomfortable. Noticing Lauren was still barefoot, Nita decided to go the same way, since the couple pairs she had brought really wouldn't go with the oufit.

She stood in front of Lauren, a hopeful expression on her face. "Is this okay, do you think?"

Nita snickered and returned the kiss, blushing through her fur. "That sounds lovely," she said, "But I think we're due to be picked up any time now." Her tail waved slightly behind her.

The red panda girl tried hard not to be nervous at meeting Moreau. She had sort of met him before, right when she arrived, but these were distinctly different circumstances. Not only was he the owner of the entire Island and the one behind her changes, but he was also her girlfriend's father-figure. Wonderful.

Lauren grabbed Nita's hand and smiled, "Come on." Yeah so formal type fancy dinners where not her thing but it was fun every once in a while. She went up to jeep and hoped in, not really bothering to open the door.

From the inside, Lauren opened the door for Nita politely and patted the seat next to her.

The jeep drove towards the labs. As usual per it's approach the gates opened automatically when they got close. They pulled into a parking lot and the guard escorted them towards the main lab building.

After going through the main lobby he took both Nita and Lauren to the Elevator. The elevator opened, he waited for them to get in and then said "Mansion". The elevator door closed as the elevator began to rise high up into the mountain and into the mansion that had been built into it.

Of course, next to Lauren, Nita felt ridiculously underdressed. The note had said "extravagant."

The first part of the trip, up to the labs, was familiar enough from Nita's recent trip to the hospital. However, she had never been to the mansion; the prospect was rather daunting.

Lauren opened up the box and smiled at Nita, "I told you!" She said. "THANKS!" She added to Moreau. The mongoose had hoped Nita wasn't too nervous, she wanted her girlfriend to be comfortable around her so called family. But Lauren also knew Moreau was a person most islanders hated and feared.

Maybe all of this would get Nita comfortable around him, allow her to understand more where Lauren is comming from.

Lauren blushed a bit. It seemed kind of weird to get changed in the same room with her girlfriend at her 'dads' house. Regardless she went into the room and beckoned for Nita to follow.

Lauren gave Nita a quick smooch as the entered the room, "So... how are you feeling?" She asked. Maybe she was worrying too much about things.

The mongoose changed as she listened, not really doing much to her hair other than tossing it up. Her ears hadn't had earrings in them forever and were no longer pierced so she couldn't bother with the earrings. Changing closed the small holes that were left in her ears.

Still, the shinyness of them impressed her. It seemed so important, more then usual to hold something shiny. She wanted desperately to hide them somewhere safe so she could go back to look at them from time to time.

Moreau waited for the two women to come out dressed. He internally cursed himself for not considering the earrings. "Those look ravishing on both of you." The strong smell of food waffs into the room.

"This way to the dining room." Moreau lead both of them to the impressive dining room that Lauren had seen before. Large and extravogant it had a long table. Across the front part of the table, where the three of them would be sitting was wine, and a distinctly asian smelling dish in sauce.

"I had my chefs prepare this with for you both. It is gourmet meat and bamboo shoots, in a rich asian sauce. Only in your cases, I had them cooked together, but the meat and bamboo shoots were seperated for each of you." Moreau motioned where they would each be sitting.

"I don't think you'll have ever had anything like it." Moreau had his own mixed bowl sitting in front of him. There were chop sticks there, but he had also laid out the silverware in the traditional style.