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Richard nodded in a sage like manner. "That must have been difficult when you and Lauren were... seeing each other. She claimed to be Moreau's daughter when I first met her." There was a note of confusion in his voice, the thought of Moreau acting in a paternal role was frightening to say the least.

She watched Comet run off, reminded of Vixen, Gaius' dog. "Anyone figure out something about the dogs? I see them around from time to time but they all seem normal so far."

With Richard's own gender issues, she was quickly becoming more open minded on the topic of relationships. After ten years of grief overriding any sexual thought Richard was beginning to notice attractive figures again, of both sexes to her torment. For the most part she ignored it and tried to forgot about her eyes got "stuck" on someone.

Richard snorted at Nita's clarification. "I'm sure she wasn't. I think he's engineering him son as we speak." Her face twist in disgust.

She shifted her gaze to the dog. She that Comet was indeed, as normal as they come. "Well Vixen was almost Lassie smart from what I saw but I'm not sure if the labs were to blame for that."

She watched Nita throw the stick a few more times but made no motions to interact with Comet. She hadn't particular cared for dogs when she was human and her transformation had not changed that.

"Say you haven't seen Thom around have you?" Richard kept her tone purely conversational but if Nita looked carefully she might note that the movements of her tail had increased in speed.

Richard kept her tone level. "Yeah, been looking for him for a couple days now, I need to talk with him but it doesn't appear he stays in the village. You know where he stays?" She sounded hopeful, she really wanted to know what was on that laptop that was Jordans, it could force Sabin's hand against Moreau.

"That would be helpful." Richard gave Nita an appraising look, trying to determine if she was trying to protect Thom for some reason. She decided against pushing the issue as she would need Thom cooperation for this little plan to go anywhere. She hadn't seen Jordan around either. This whole thing was going to require least one of those two players to work.

She shook her head, looking disappointed. "But you see him regularly then? You can tell him I frequent a tree about a mile up river from the lake. Just follow the claw marks." She flushed slightly at that, admitting that to herself that she marked her space like an animal was not something she was particularly proud of.

Richard emitted a small mew. Nita had gotten her hopes up. A tentacle snapped down into the surf, pulling up a smooth rock that Richard had spotted earlier. She took the rock from the tentacle's club and sent it skipping out across the water. It made three skips before it was engulfed in a wave.

She thought about offering asking Sabin to relax Nita and Gaius' buzzing problem in return for more information about Thom, but she didn't want to play that card. Especially if Nita didn't have useful info.

"Well, anything else going on lately? I've been a bit of a recluse lately."

Richard smirked mischievously at Nita, "Not even once?" It was hard to tell if she was kidding or not but she was clearly amused by the thought.

Richard's smirk widened into a grin. "It would be as much fun as you'd like it to be I suppose." She winked at Nita. She could help several mental images of "creative" uses of Gaius' helplessness and she was surprised and a little disturbed by her own imagination. She gave small shake and took a step deeper into the water.