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Mot was ready to be back to his dorm. Maybe read, play with FooFoo or hang out with Hel. Ah, the possibilities. Mot had seen the zombie boil in their path, but thought nothing of it until he called out to them. Apparently he was a friend of Yin.

The reaper tilted his head a bit at Alex's question, trying to remember if he'd seen this boil before. "Not formally, at the very least." Mot admitted, sporting a quick smile. "I'm Mot. A knob at Amity." He introduced himself with a nod of his head.

"Who might you be? Friend of yours, Yin?"

Alex still thought that the cowboil looked awfully familiar, and it took him a moment longer to puzzle it out. "The school play!" He finally blurted out, just as it came to mind. "You were the narrator. I was..uh..a doll." He said, a little ashamedly, not really relishing the memory. He held out his free hand to shake with the cowboil anyways, and reply with his own name

"Alexander." He nodded, "It's good to formally meet you, Mot!" He grinned all the more before turning his attention back towards Yin, who was answering Mot's second question. Alex shrugged off the 'very good friend' comment, since it was true, though he would have preferred the term 'boilfriend'.

"I actually came here because...well, I was coming to look at some new stock they got in at Out of the Closet. I called ahead to see what they had and I think they might have something new that you..or we, would like." His grin faded into something more like a fond smile, and when Yin asked if he had bought more ties, he just winked, and answered with an "Of course." before noticing that Yin looked...a little off.

"Are you...ok?" He asked, a little confused. He'd only ever seen Yin look that tired once before, and that was after they had spent some time locked in Alex's room together. Normally the weremantis was full of energy. This was..just weird. His eyes flickered between both boils now, wondering what it was they had been doing to make the mantodae look so exhausted.

It was nice to see the other boils meeting each other, Mot was a rather nice sort (if a touch odd at times) and who would not like Alexander? Plus it sounded like they already had something in common.

So far as Alexander being at the maul for him well...that was confusing, and he was wondering if perhaps he had misheard or misunderstood the zomboil. Mot seemed a bit uncomfortable as well, and it took him a moment longer than probably necessary to figure out why. Of course, Mot was ready to go home and had expected to be escort by him, and would not want to stay at the maul any longer. He would simply have to back out of that obligation, because if he had to choose between the two he would rather go with his bonded.

"I must apologize Mot," he tried to fight a yawn and failed. "I would prefer to go with Alexander to look at..." he paused, not knowing what they would actually be looking at, "...merchandise. Unless...do you require assistance?" He would not simply abandon the cowboil. He nodded at Alexander's query. "Yes, I just...I shall need to go to bed earlier tonight it seems. But perhaps we can go to the store and examine the new ties before that?" Obviously Yin was the best boilfriend in the world, to volunteer to be shown pointless strips of cloth simply because a certain zomboil had a fetish.

Why were they trailing off. What merchandise? How many ties did you need in S&M?! Or was it BDSM? A humble and good boil like Mot wouldn't know. These... these boils were heathens!

Alex's offer was innocent, but in Mot's current mind set, it was the indecent cult offer all over again. "Outsi...uh...n-no! No no no, I must decline! You uh... have f-fun.. on your own. Not my thing." Mot answered nervously, trying to smile. Trying.

The grim reaper bgean to walk away backewards from the pair, his arms up defensively. "I uh.. should head back. My ghoulfriend would be worried about me. Yeah..." I DON'T SWING THAT WAY, OKAY!

Alex was just...so very confused. He had politely offered to have the other boil tag along with them during their shopping, and he was refusing in a way that made the zomboils eyebrows raise in question. Was he...worried that Alex was going to try something with him? The way he emphasized the word ghoulfriend only added to Alex's concerns. Just because he was with Yin didn't mean he was some boil crazy sex fiend! In fact, Yin was the only boil Alex had ever felt anything other then friendliness towards.

Feeling quite awkward now, and unsure of how to react, he reached up to run his free hand through his hair nervously, Maybe he was just reading too much into Mot's reaction. It was highly possible the other boil was just very busy and didn't know how to decline without seeming rude. So Alex just shrugged, and finally smiled, his whole face brightening again. "Suit yourself!"

He completely missed the look Yin was giving him, so was surprised when his bag of ties was suddenly taken from him, only to be replaced by Yin's much warmer hand in his. Oh ya! Being in the maul meant hand holding! Alex was practically on cloud nine at that point, and even Yin's mention of 'experiments' which should have given Alex pause to wonder what in Halloween he was talking about, were easily shrugged off. He barely even remembered to say goodbye to Mot, but before the cowboil could run he managed a quick. "It was nice meeting you!" with a happy wave as he began tugging Yin along towards the pet shop.