Welcome to Gaia! ::

Richard seemed to take the threat no more seriously than a housecat would regard a mouse showing it a restraining order. Perhaps after a few changes this man would be a threat but right now the cat was feeling particularly cocky. There was nothing to fear from a new human. With a few quick motions she was back in the tree, sitting a low branch. She settled in to it before responding.

"Tsk," She shook her head sadly at Nicky. "You did better than most." Nicky's tough guy attitude impressed Richard some but it was obvious to her she had shaken her target in some way and that smug satisfaction played out over her feline features.

"Very well you want truth? I have truth." Richard gazed up at the forest canopy above them. "The jungle is not safe, especially for new arrivals such as yourself. There are inhabitants that are far fiercer than I who take special offense to people tromping through their territory." It was unsaid but the look that followed that sentence, communicated that Nicky was trespassing. "Three weeks after arrival, you'll receive your second inject and begin to your transformation into what ever struck Sabin's fancy this month. I know a woman who's growing tentacles from her lips. Oh and the transformations are usually painful enough to reduce the most macho of men into a mewling ball of pain." The bitterness absolutely dripped from those words.

"Had enough of your reality yet Nicky?"

The "love," comment earned Nicky a surprised look, Richard looked about started to object until her eyes focused on her chest. She settled for a grumbling sigh. Explaining her predicament to Nicky was not something she felt like doing at the moment so let it pass. Instead she took to analyzing Nicky's comment for any signs of sarcasm but found none. Sabin as either a friend or a benefactor did not sit well with her and her tail flicked in annoyance.

And he wanted a data dump like that? It was as if he expected them to be working together for some reason. "Choosing a side before you even know the game eh? You want me to tell you all about this gilded cage because you drop a name?" She causally lick the back of her handpaw a few times and then inspected her claws before turning back to Nicky. "Get this straight now, I'm not Sabin's lackey." She smirked. "That position is filled anyway."

As far as Richard was concerned the less people that knew that she and Sabin had reached an "understanding" the better. She did not want to be pegged as some one who was pro labs. She perfered to think of it as pro power struggle.

Richard snorted at Nicky's description of Zachary. "The transformation don't increase intelligence. Thats a fact. A fool is a still a fool. Although... sanity is not always preserved." A tentacle shot straight up into the foliage, snapping back with a book attached to it. She peeled it from the tentacle tip and passed it to her lower arms which opened it in her lap. She smiled to herself, proud that she had nabbed the book her first try. She knew her tree better than her own body as this point.

She looked from her book to the former gangster with a smug smile. "Talk to me in week or two, after the itsnotgoingtohappentomeitius is good and shattered. " she smiled a grin that perked up her ears. "A new wind might just start blowing about then."

Richard shrugged, "Wouldn't have made a difference I suspect. Not many of us signed any sort of contract. They get you here any way they can and once your here it begins." How many diferent stories had people been told to come here Richard wondered. "Doesn't matter how you get here."

With feline disinterest Richard nodded and turned back to her book. "If I had removed it then I wouldn't get to see if Sabin was still on his tentacle kick." She chuckled quietly to herself. "I will see you around I'm sure." Maybe some other time she'd pry Nicky's story out of him but right now she wanted some solitude.