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"Um... hello." Gullien nodded back, eyeing the two others. She hadn't seen them before... the kid was definately a Mishap and a pretty obvious one at that. The woman currently staring at her rather blankly was a bit odder... fluffy ears and tail. Was she an anthro? Great... Not sure of what else to do with herself, Gullien simply sat and blinked back.

Lassa, however, wasn't easily cowed by staring people. As soon as the woman spoke, her head shot up and she was in a flat run to the pool's side, milk cans clunking merrily. "Hihi!" She called out, standing on tip-toes to grab the pool's rim.
"'M Lassa! Who you?" No need to introduce Gullien. She knew who Gullien was! Who were the new people?

"Uh... yeah, hi. I'm Gullien and this is Thylassa. I... I take it you want to use the pool too, huh?"

"Osso!" Lassa peeped back happily, far more interested in the other child than the other adult. Her stumpy tail waggled happily as she hopped slightly, trying to get a better view over the hide side of the pool. "Osso look cool!" The other boy DID too, all cool and smooth and SPACES. Lassa didn't have spaces all over like Osso did. All the other kids she'd met had been fuzzy too. Osso was barely fuzzy at ALL. "Osso swim?" Say yesyesyes!

"Lassa! Don't jump around in the pool, you'll break your neck!" Gullien called back, tail bristling worriedly. It wasn't that Lassa was clumsy... it was just that Gullien REALLY didn't trust Lassa and water right now. Satisfied the little squirt had stopped jumping, if nothing else, Gullien turned back to the two other people. "It's more than fine with us, as you can see." She replied, smiling slightly at the other woman. "Azumi and Osso, right? Nice to meet you. Lassa!"

"Nice ta meetcho! ....SWIM!"

Lassa nodded, clanking her way over to where Osso sat. "I swim good! Is real easy." She reached out, tugging gently on one bony foot, a gesture that was more of a hint than any real attempt at pulling Osso into the pool. "Osso has to be in water to swim. Aumi got it!" She pointed over to where the other woman had progressed into the pool. "In da water. Need a milk floatie?" She solemly offered Osso one of the plastic milk cartons strewn about her like leis with the hand not holding his foot.

Gullien nodded at the other guardian, legs swishing the pool from where she sat at the deep end and tail held disdainfully high way from the water. "We've been together for a little while, now. Since December, actually. Have you been with Osso long?" She paused, trying to remember her social niceties. She'd forgotten something..."It's nice to meet you as well."

Lassa giggled happily as Osso FINALLY stopped hanging around and got in the water. Dropping down, she submerged herself and swam over to him. The water was still to shallow to be dangerous, in fact Lassa's tail was sticking out from it like a tiny shark fin. More impressive than her dive was the fact that she was holding her breath the whole time she swam over to Osso. That and the fact that she was deftly shedding milk containers like a little eel. She was little, but she had already learned the bounds of what she could get away with when she was alone with Gullien and what she could get away with in front of company.

Sure enough, Gullien twitched a few times as she eyed the trail of floating containers, but didn't dare say anything with the two other people in the room. By herself she wouldn't have had a problem telling Lassa to redon her recyclables and get back into the shallow end. With Azumi and Osso there though... well, in front of other people it sounded silly. "Well, we've had some interesting times here and there." She told Azumi, eyes still looked on Lassa. "In fact, the whole reason we're here at the pool today is because she blocked up all the drains in our bathroom and flooded it to make a wading pool. The worst part is that it actually worked really well. Our bathroom held the water and everything. Which is good, I have no idea what room we're over but it probably isn't waterproof."

Lassa popped up in front of Osso, grinning at Gullien. "I made mis-lake!"

"A mistake. That's a BAD thing."

"A mis-lake!" Lassa grinned bigger, tail waggling and forming small whitecaps. Clearly no guilt was felt from this particular party.

Both Azumi and Osso laughed, though for different reasons.

Osso laughed as he watched the milkcarton-shedding child swim towards him. Silently he envied the girl's water mobility skills and wished he could do those things.

"Ahh, little blue and red bouncy eyed monster!" he yelled playfully as Lassa popped out of the water. His listened and turned his attention towards Gullien as the two "argued", but apparently Lassa had won since she seemed completely content with what ever she had done to their bathroom.

hollow gaze shifted back towards the blue tinted child when his mother started talking and asking more questions. She did that alot, Osso not so much, but there was one thing he wanted to ask this avid swimmer, "how did you swim under water for so long?" Actually, what he wanted to know more was how she swam under water at all.

"Noo, I think the mis-lake sounds fitting for what she did," chuckling she watched Lassa and Osso. The blonde marveled at the young child's abilities in water and couldn't help but ask another question about the Mishap. "Do you know what went into the spell that made her? Obviously something aquatic..." she had the tendency to state the obvious..

Osso wanted to say "well, duh" but he held his tongue considering it was he who asked and Lassa was still young. As the newt girl spoke, he lowered himself down to sit upon the pool's shallow floor. Water now reached up to his mid section.

"Uh...well...Alright." Osso finally gathered enough of his courage and took in a large gulp of air, held it, and went as far under as the shallow depth of the pool would allow...which wasn't much, but it was enough.

Once under, he opened his eyes and was very surprised at how clear everythig was. He could see most of Lassa and then Gullien and his mother's feet and legs. This. Was. AWESOME.

Azumi had taken most of her attention off of her charge as she listend and talked. "Ahhh, newt eye makes sense," she agreed with a nod. It explained the girl's fin ears and her blue splotches as well as the little tail. At the mention of Osso's spell, the Noir found herself looking back in the boy's direction as he went underwater. "Osso is-" she was cut off when some chirrping crying staticky sound came from the side of the pool.

"Auuuuuugghhh, other kid's awake. I'll be back in a second," she sighed and made her way towards the stairs. The baby moniter was soon switched off when she got out. "Could you watch Osso? It'll only be a minute," the question was hollered as the werewolf darted out of the pool area.

Green considered what it might mean to have to supervise both a toddler and a baby. If Retta was a particularly energetic child it could prove a bit troublesome but not entirely impossible.

An understanding smile presented itself to Haze in spite of the cries that continued to erupt from her little bunny child. It was a wonder that something so small could be so loud.

"I'd be glad to watch her," Green said loudly, desperate to be heard over top of Rose's wails. She repositioned the toddler on her hip so that her ears were no longer receiving the brunt of the attack and swiftly went about calming the baby before poor Retta could be frightened away.