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"Approximately. I slept through most of it, t' be 'onest." How he had managed that, he wasn't sure. He certainly wouldn't be sleeping through this one unless the vicodin was a good deal stronger than he expected it to be. For the last change, most of the differences had appeared in a matter of minutes, while his leg was the only thing that had taken a while to change. During this change, the pain was much more widespread...and, aside from the appearance of further scales, he hadn't noticed any visible changes. That was not a good sign.

He was somewhat surprised when Sid elected to stick around. Thom wasn't quite feeling up to conversation, but any distraction from the pain of the change was welcome. "This one...doesn't seem t' be goin' any faster," he choked out between throbs from his leg.

"It does," Thom replied, laughing more genuinely. For the time, he had resigned himself. It was easy at this point to say 'just grin and bear it'. Undoubtably he would be speaking differently before long, but for now the pain was tolerable as long as he didn't focus on it, save perhaps for the digging sensation at the bottom of his foot... but he did his best to pretend it wasn't happening, especially when one check after another revealed no such hole. "I don't know. Cassidy didn't mention anythin' about lengthy chan--ah, bugger--damn, 'scuse. Doesn't mean she didn't deal with them too."

"Python," he offered shortly as means of an explanation. How else did one explain Cassidy? He hadn't know her when she was still recognizable as human. She had already reached her thrid change before they had met, and that had been startling enough. Her third change had left her inhuman, unblinking, slithering with only useless stubs for legs.

Thom's blood ran cold at the thought, and he made a second attempt to rise to his feet, but the increased pressure on his leg sent a fresh stab of agony running up the bone. He shouted aloud before he could prevent himself, gritting his teeth against it a split second later and sinking back into his original position. Stupid idea. Stupid idea. Breath somewhat labored, he gave himself a moment to gather his thoughts before latching onto the conversation once more, pointedly avoiding looking near his right foot. "One of...th' first 'ere, I believe. Nice girl. Probably...completely changed by now."

He lifted a hand slightly as a sign that didn't need any help, but, momentarily drained by the shock and consequential rush of endorphins to his leg, he did recline back against the tree, head lolling back against the bark. "Tell 'er I say 'ello, if you see 'er." Tell her that he knew exactly how she feeled, and that he was sorry she had to endure it because he damn well wasn't enjoying it, and that he hoped she wouldn't scream and run away at the sight of him.

His headache had diminished somewhat thanks to the painkillers, and the constant pulsing of his left leg and tail seemed farther away. The right leg seemed to be fading towards the same, and likely would have been much more tolerable if he hadn't been stupid enough to try walking again. He was just stuck outdoors for the duration of his change, apparently. "Never been much f'...movies," he mumbled apologetically, cocking his head towards Sid. "But I 'ave 'eard of it. What's it...about? Any good?"

Natsumi had settled into a sit, the traditional Japanese style of sitting that might make anyone else's legs fall asleep, simply listening as the two spoke. She'd check behind them every now and then, or off to the side, wherever the wind seemed to blow past.

She was thankful for Sid, actually, he seemed to be helping Thom get distracted, and that seemed to be what Thom liked to do. She generally agreed... But at the moment, she would have found herself short on conversation. She was still spent from trying to deal with not breakign newt's heart... Which failed, she thought... But atleast it wasn't too bad. he hadn't said anythign before she left, so that was a plus, right? Little did she know that was just Newt being heartbroken. But she could live in ignorence for the moment.

So she was listning, talk of that Cassidy girl she hadn't met, then thom tried to stand, instinctivly she shifted like Sid did, but all seemed to settle down so she returned to silence. It was rather amusing they thought she might protest, granted she would have protested at any other time... But as the circumstances were, she would have been wondering where all that stuff was when she was in labor. Okay not really, but she was still too concerned about Thom to care about morals. But as the case was, she was none the wiser. Then some weird talk about killing and whatnots. She offered Sid a small smile, then glanced to Thom at the next question. She felt like she needed to say something, but nothing was coming, which left her looking a tad awkward.

"No reason," Sid said with a shrug. "It was, like, the first thing that popped in my head is all. We can move on to the weather if you like. I guess this is what counts as winter in the tropics... Or is it the caribbean?" He shook his head, aware he was babbling but not caring enough to stop himself. "Never was good with geography. Or math. Or science. Hey, there's English... Which I ******** up all the time anyway."

Realizing he probably wasn't helping (more like assuming), Sid nodded back towards his duplex. "I should probably just... go... yeah."

Before either of them could say anything, he waved and started walking. He tried to keep from breaking into a run... He wasn't running away, he was just making a tactical retreat. Or something. Yeah, that was it.