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Ree looked curious at Kae's mention that Mara spoke of them often to her. It made him wonder what she said good or bad.......she gave no hint to either but still seemed favorable so he shook his head and smiled until she started to mention Hexxis.

"You were the one who transferred Hexxis? Huh " he looked suprised leaning forward slightly as he rested his right forearm against the table. That was one piece of information he could never get from Tri because not even Tri knew. "From prism land ...His code word for Spectrum for the moment. "They were experimenting on her...still experimenting on her even with the current change in leadership? " remembering his conversation with Mira that now felt like ages again.

As Kae reached the end he looked away from her, glancing to the napkin as he reached out to adjust it. "I haven't really meet her yet... Here and there now and then " he corrected feeling guilty for not try harder, yet talking to children always made him feel odd. "Most of her contact she been with Tri.. He... Um got stabbed two times on different occasions by her malice. Yet he still adopted her " no emotion, nothing. Tri never asked him.. Didn't need to ask him but it did hurt a little. It hurt more when he leaned he had spent most of the time in recovery. "Tri....doesn't really " there was a pause as he tried to figure out how to say it. "He doesn't hold grudges easily "

Ree smiled faintly as she repeated his word for Spectrum, it didn't need a code are but he just wanted to do it on a whim and was amused she followed along. Yet as she talked his face slowly turned into one of faint surprise then of respect and quiet calculation. So she was the one who pushed Mira up to the position she was in now, a figure head while she worked behind the scenes? As he told Mira it wasn't a bad think that she was there ...it just assumed that she would know how much of a push she would have.

"Lot of pies..and good." He said with a slight shake of his head, with someone running it from the scene maybe there would be less "property".m Hopefully there would also be no more like Hexxis...even so he had been tempted to ask about the other underground experiments..but read enough from other centers to assume.

"As for Tri...a little of both. " he looked thoughtful but the waitress started to arrive with the food, placing them all out on the table and leaving two empty plates so they could serve themselves from each of them. "Okay then! " he smiled pointing out which plate was which and anything special or different it had.

Even as he watched Kae's face for queues of what she liked and didn't like of the plates presented, something he used to decided what he would eat more of while leaving what was more palatable to her, he found the complete silence throughout the meal a bit awkward. When he went out with the others Mara would always talk even Tri interjected something now and then or he would throw something out to tease them both. With Kae he was not completely sure if he should try or if she liked the quiet of eating in near silence, other than for the chatter of the other tables and the soft music coming from the side. After waiting a bit,while he piled his own plate, he let it go. Putting more of his attention into eating, with passable table etiquette for the restaurant, and listening absently to the conversations of the tables near them.

So when she ask her question as he finished up, he was caught completely off guard. "No!" He replied automatically shaking his head slightly before stopping, looking faintly embaressed as he finished putting the plate to the side which he had been doing before she asked. Taking that time to try and think up of a better explanation after that answer.

"Children make me feel uncomfortable " hurrying quickly before she got the wrong idea. "I was raised by humans, so most of my playmates were human " he said quietly trying to struggle to say what he wanted, how he felt. "I grew to fast? I don't know how common it is for metas in general but it " he paused frowning, it wasn't as he had to say this before. Mara and Tri assumed, Tri avoided actually talking about it either from his own discomfort or both their discomfort.

"Makes for very tense situations when one year to the other you grow 3 feet and look like a older teen...and the child you used to wrestle with grew maybe an inch. Now there are different rules and expectations you are expected to observe when you just want to punch them like you did last year which might accidently throw them across the room instead of just fall over..heh" he smiled faintly as if trying to be funny, knowing now that was something that was highly look down on at the age he apprented. Parts of him felt more mature while others were reactions of how he would react as a child...like now, he realized he should not have told her about the fighting and have just changed it to play or something. He didn't look at her at all, feeling the dread of embaressment for not knowing what maybe other metas knew and dealt with more easily than he did or just seeing reproach in her gaze.p as he saw on many of the ad- others.

It was funny that he could easily understand the more murky waters of what Mara worked with every day, the distrust and maneuvering but when it came to children it was something he would rather avoid if possible. "It is...something I have to work though" but not one he was trying very hard on, he could handle them it just make him feel like he didn't belong sometimes. Especially now when he looked more like Tri's brother than his son.

He paused moving back to her original question finally. "I might have children if I find someone I like and they want them. If I don't die of old age first " this time there was a hint of a smile even if the fear was real. There wasn't much that could be done anyways if it were true, just live. He and Tri were raised with a human mentality, which is how he could ask for a collar for Blaise without realizing the irony of it all, since he was just thinking of the safety.

Ree looked stunned as if he had forgotten who it was he was talking with. No...not forgotten he never actually analyzed the words. The mother of metas.... the one who created all the original metas.He was a third generation..the fact they were not like the other races in that respect, rarely passed his mind. He had parents.. his known father had parents...and he rarely thought of anything further.

"Uh..yes yes we should. Before Mara sends someone after her car " he smiled faintly but there was an odd look on his face as if he had been blown away and was still recovering. All this time and he could have asked her about more important questions...instead of just... just.

There was a gap of silence before he spoke "Thank you..." he said finally, realizing that even with that he was told he was ...grateful. Grateful that she was trying to warn him, listened and for telling him something he didn't know but worried about.That little fact he was pretty sure he would have to think long and hard on, right now being told you were immortal when it came to old age was not something that registered at all.

This could have gone bad if he had enough time to think about it before hand, if they meet in different circumstances. A lot of what ifs... but during this time he got to know her, if a little. That she remembered when she was young and stupid helped too. "Well then, if you want to go out again I don't mind showing you other restaurants in the area " relaxing slightly catching a bit of humor on her face and remembering this was what he had been trying to do ..to get her to relax. Taking a breath he reached out for the bill and got up."Maybe something maybe a bit more palatable? I'll be right back " he grinned and motioned to the ones she had avoided as he got up to go pay the bill and have the left overs boxed so they could go.