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"Um, actually," Len trailed off, looking guiltily up at Rabid. "Maybe we should-"

"Accursed winged rodents! I never shoulda brought them with me, the ungrateful little feathered freaks of nature!"

Crow stormed back down the lawn, looking scorched. Her face was blackened with what looked like soot, and her hair stood on end underneath her side-cocked pilots helmet. Growling and grumbling, Crow marched to the shore and picked Lenore up.

Taking a deep breath and giving Rabid a worn-out smile, she tried to wipe some of the soot off her face with dignity.

"Uh, the rats sort of made my surround sound speakers....explode. Me an' Len are gonna have to go to town to get a repair guy up here, and then we're gonna get some rat traps," she said, nearly shouting the last two words towards her room. A thin lick of grey smoke drifted out of the window, where a few equally sooty and smoking winged kangaroo rats sat guiltily.

Heaving a sigh, she put Lenore down and held her by the hand, leading her back to HQ.

"See ya later, Rabid," Crow said, pausing only to extinguish a bit of her hair that was still smoldering.

Lenore looked back and waved goodbye to Malachi dolefully.

"Bye, Bah!"

"Mama!" Shavira half dragged, half led Kii out of the building and into the outside world. "'C'moooooon Maaamaaaaa! Shliiiiiiide!" Shavi pointed at the playground area nearby. She was wide awake, and bursting with unused energy, and when Kii had finally agreed to go outside and play, leaving her work behind, Shavi could barely keep still or slow down.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa there, sweetheart...I'm coming, I'm coming. Yes, we'll go on the slide...but you have to wait for me!" She laughed as she was yanked even closer to the play area, hurried along. "Having kids must be a great way to lose weight...." She panted and let her daughter and HER snakes start climbing the ladder.

Finally at the top of the ladder, Shavira threw her arms up over her head. "Taaah BaaaH!" She giggled hysterically and wiggled her fingers. When she looked up, she suddenly noticed Rabid nearby. "Ah?" She stared at her for a moment...before..."MAHMA! Ladi." She pointed, accusingly at Rabid.

Kii, also noticing Rabid and Malachi, blinked in surprise. "Oh! Hello! Sorry to er...bother you." She turned quickly to Shavira. "It's alright, hun...It looks like this lady, not ladi dear, is a mommy just like me." She smiled before turning BACK to Rabid. She seemed a bit...unorganized. "Sorry, again...I'm KiiMeLwi!"

Finally noticing Malachi, Shavira grinned and waved. Whenever she saw another Mishap, she knew everything was alright. She supposed Kii made her worry over
'strangers' for nothing...maybe. "Ike!" She repeated, slowly. "Me Shavi! Nayc too met yuu." She struggled with the longer sentence her mother had been trying to teach her.

KiiMeLwi walked around to the other side of the slide and opened her arms, ready to catch Shavira if she decided she still wanted to go down. "Yes, this is Shavira. Please excuse her speech, she hasn't seem to completely get the hang of it yet." It was one of her worries...Shavira's slower learning of speech...but she wouldn't let it bother her unless it became a big problem...Shavi still had time. "As for myself, you can call me Kii. Like everyone else, of course."

Shavira blinked, surprised at the new nickname. "Savvy?....Bah." She mumbled...her favorite word of all time, and perfect for any situation. Seeing Kii was ready, Shavira plopped her butt down onto the plastic slide and pushed off, screeching joyously as she slid to the bottom. Her snakes pushed themselves close to her body so they wouldn't get crushed or bumped on the ride. "MAH!" She grabbed onto Kii, and let herself be picked up and put back on the ground. She then rushed off to go towards Rabid. "La..dy...em, Ike wanna play?" Her snakes swirled around her belly, trying to get a good look at this new person.

Kii rushed after Shavi, a bit red in the face. "Oh, goodness, I'm sorry. I suppose she doesn't understand her manners much either..." She tugged Shavi's hand before she could grab Rabid's clothes.

"Yeee!" Shavira clapped as Malachi went backwards down the slide. "Goo' Ike! Less pway!" She rushed off towards the sandbox..

Kii clapped just when Shavi did. "Yes, Ike is good at going down the slide." She grinned. "And he's adorable...He seems sweet, but I can only imagine he's a handful. So was...er...is...Shavira. So...When did you come to the Mishaps?"

Shavira had already started to make a large pile of sand. She grinned as Malachi joined her, but also felt strange movement at her belly. Looking down, she noticed most of her snakes were wrapping themselves around her belly, trying to get behind her. She blinked in confusion, not knowing what they were doing, or what was wrong...

Kii laughed outright, knowing exactly how Mishaps could be. Seeing the scars, she gasped, and nodded. "Ah...interesting meeting, I assume." She hadn't had any recent bites, scrathes or slashes from Shavira and her snakes in a while...she had gotten used to them by now, and how not to annoy them. "I used to get plenty of those."