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Mouse decided that Frieze's approach to this was much better than her own, and thus nodded in agreement. "He'll always be here in this aquarium, though. So you can come back and visit him whenever you want to." She scratched her head in thought for a quick moment. "But if you want, maybe you can carry him around just for today? But be careful; he might bite your nose. Happened to my cousin once."

It's not that Sylvest didn't like Squirt. He just wasn't too fond of an introduction involving something being in such close proximity to his face. And at Mouse's mention of the nose-biting, he gasped loudly and clapped two of his arms over his face, making sure that that wouldn't happen to him.

The little guy beamed at the attention, tilting his head slightly as the older boy ruffled his hair. He wasn't quite sure what this "Squirt" thing was, although Freize had called it a turdle or something. He didn't know... The turdle didn't have any family? That was sad... Maybe Tea could be his family? That was a good idea. The boy nodded in agreement to what Teagan just said. Everyone needs family.

The male shrugged slightly, "You don't have to be related to be a family..." He shifted a bit, pondering over his words, "None of my children are related to me... Yet." His stomach jumped in excitement at that thought. The baby was coming... Erm, but back on the topic. Turtle. Right. "But they are still my family, and we still love eachother. Friends can kind of be family too... Like what if someone took one of your friends away and you never got to see them again? Or if you got taken away and never got to see them? You'd miss them too..." He shrugged again. "But it's up to you.." And then he turned his attention back to the tanks. Just like that he was out of the discussion. Ah the wonders of being bad at socializing. You run out of things to say, you don't need to say anymore.

Teagan flicked his ears as if he were trying to bat away a bug, a confused expression on his face. The whole time the man had been talking, his brain had basically been going, Blah Blah Blah mangoes Blah Blah family Blah Blah took away. Alright, so he hadn't been able to concentrate too well lately, there was nothing wrong with that as long as he could please the person that seemed a bit upset with him. "...Kay...?" He set the little turtle back in the tank, waving to it cheerfully, "Byebye Squirt."

Mouse looked around at the other tanks and was fortunate enough to look at a rare sight. "Oooh, look! That red octopus is out of its den!" she said probably a little too loudly, pointing at the sea creature. It glid like a dull red ghost across the artificial ocean floor, pausing only to devour a crab that was probably left for it as its lunch.

Sylvest looked at the octopus and had mixed feeling about it. That thing looked weird! But wasn't he one of them? "Looks weird, Mama," he said pointedly.

"Heh... a lot of people think that, I would imagine," Mouse replied, still observing the animal. "But I think they're really cool. And, by the same token, that makes you cool as well, Sylvest." She grinned.

The 'roo was instantly fascinated by the creature- he had seen something like that on TV! They had big teeth and ate aminals and stuff. He moved closer to the tank, releasing his friend for now to trod over and get himself a better look, tail swishing along behind him. His fingers pressed immediately against the edge of the tank, eyes fixed on the creature. Eva seemed to be growing a fascination for the more scary creatures, like bats and sharks and snakes. Alla those things.

Tea jumped at the sound, flicking an ear curiously. "Swooordfishies!" he cooed in amazement, staring at the poster. He lost interest at the sound of Ms. Mouse's voice, snapping his head up to look at her, "The touch pool's fun! Not as fun as the jellies though, cause you can swim in there with them, but people get mad sometimes if you try an swim in the touch pool."

"Alright, that's four for the touch pool, one undecided... Frieze? You alive in there?" Mouse asked. "Ah, it's just an aquarium, anyway..." she decided. What could go wrong in a place as mundane as an aquarium? Even the vicious-looking sharkes provided little threat, thanks to the thick wall of glass between them and the visitors. "Can you walk, Eva? If so, follow me." The scholar led the Edens down the hallway along with carrying Sylvest, pausing a couple of times to point out a particular sea creature she liked.

Freize was very much gone, but he seemed to hear Mouse. He lifted a hand to give a slight wave before returning to his thoughts.

Eva grinned slightly- why sure he could walk! He forced his Da to carry him everywhere, but he could really walk real good! He trodded along behind Mouse, looking at all of the creatures being pointed out, expression that of awe... Wow, so many little water aminals. He popped two fingers in his mouth, gnawing at them idly as he tried to remember all of the aminal's names. His ears swivvelled at Tea's voice, and he blinked once or twice before looking to the fishie he pointed out. Whazzat? He watched it swim along curiously.