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Alex just blinked at the two changed individuals, not sure if he should say anything as he turned to grill up some of those patties he had on the stove. "How long will it be till I'm eating my food raw like some wild beast?", he thought to himself, as he cooked and then started to clean up some of the mess. He tried not to stare at Alys' scarfing down of the fish. He didn't want to think it was wrong when his mind was saying otherwise.

Once one of the patties was done, he flipped them onto some bread, putting a bit of cheese on top of them, making himself a nice fish sandwich. It wasn't like he really wanted fish for breakfast but he was hungry and its not like he'd gotten much else the night before while he was gathering food.

"Its quite alright...", he said to both replies. Alex stared down at his sandwich a bit, deciding it was easier to just look at the food than to look up. After all, if he didn't look up, they couldn't tell how afraid he was, that he was just trying to be calm for the sakes of them.

Nick stopped licking his forearms for a moment, noticing Alex hadn’t started eating yet. He cocked his head to the side, ear twitching as his curiosity peaked.

“Don’t you like fish?” he voice trailed off into a low purr.

She had been watching him for a few moments as he snapped back into reality, trying in some form to hide his fear of what was to come, the questions that must have been buzzing in his head. He must have been in as much shock as she was. Nick, though, seemed to be doing fine, considering her memory of him the night before was of a confused, frightened kitten.

She nodded, "It's alright. The food's nice as it is..." She heard it, the 'are you alright' question. She wasn't alright. Not at that moment, anyway. Mostly, she was angry that she couldn't accept what was happening. She felt like such a hypocrite.

"I'm doing alright, better than lastnight, I suppose..."

"Oh... sure...", he said to the cat person, getting up slowly to go open the door for Nick. He tried not to think about having to put in a 'pet door' on the door, but he did ruffle Nick's ears a bit as he left. "Thanks for the help. Take care."

He returned a bit later, and nodded to Alys. "Did you need anything else?", he asked her as he went to clean up whatever food was left or wasn't needed, or any cans and food that needed to be tossed away. He put his hand onthe end of the tentacle that used to her her arm. "I'm... sorry about earlier. Its been a bit suprising, seeing you change and... yeah..." He tried to think of something else to say, but for the life of him, he had no clue what to say.

He tilted his head, as his 3 fingered hand held her tentacle. "Yeah, maybe, but I guess I just wasn't prepared for to see you change right there." He looked at her and smirked, "Well, I guess we can rule out you going hang gliding. But, considering you spent a good portion of last night asleep under water, I'd say you at least have the chance to explore the lake and river now."

"Next time, you can freak out when I change into a horribly deformed bird. Although don't stick me in a tub full of water. I think my feathers are dry clean only." He tried to joke about the situation, hoping that it might make Alys smile, or at least feel a bit better.

He squeezed her tentacle a bit. "Hey, life is weird like that some days. Life is what we make of it, no matter how bad a hand we were given to play with. And if it helps, you're the nicest squid I've ever met."

Alex chuckled back at the comment. "Its nice to see you finally able to laugh a bit." He smiled as he looked at the tentacle as he squeezed his hand, then back up. "I'm just glad that alcohol didn't give you a bad hang over or something. I guess that change must have had something to do with it."

"And plans? No... no plans. Why? Worried I'm gunna miss an important meeting or cargo shipment?" He reached over with his free hand and sipped the last of the coke he had in the can. "Only thing I can think of is getting you to your duplex to rest up, and packing the left over fish in a cooler to take over there. I figured you'd probably not want to go out for a day or two till you're steady walking again. I think I went overboard getting the food last night."

Actually, this wasn't too far from when he used to take folks too and from places, back when he was transporting folks around overseas. Luckily the duplex wasn't that far to haul the cargo of a cooler of fish to.

Alex nodded some, and got up, going over to the fridge. He picked up the cooler to haul all the fish to the duplex with, so it wasn't that far away. "Yeah.. at least as far as I could tell. Unless you were holding your breath or something..." He tossed the fish into the cooler and then looked over. "Uh, oh, did you want the tuna? Its in tins and I wasn't sure you wanted to fight with them. Uh, nah, better leave those here..."

"Well, I can drop in every few hours and check in on you, if you'd like. You probably have a ton of stuff to figure out after all, and last thing I need to do is be in the way..."

He noddled some. He put some ice in the cooler then closed the top, picking it up. "Its ok. If you want, you can use me to keep you steady. I doubt you want to be carrying around this cooler of fish after all." He then made his way towards the door, moving slowly so Alys could use him some to maintain her balance.

"You know, at least you didn't change into something like a jellyfish..., then your legs really would be like jelly." Ok, bad jokes? Yeah, Alex was feeling a bit better it seemed.