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Kinpoko tilts her head, not understanding the question. Her hair wasn't dyed... it always grew in that color! But, she didn't know that her hair color would be considered 'unnatural'. She shakes her head, taking another sip of her passionfruit juice, looking right at Eliza.

"What is 'dye'? Is it good to drink?"

((EDIT: Once. Boy, is my brain malfunctioning...))

((actually, she'd ask him to prove it, but a battle can wait for later when we've more time. XD Right now, you guys need to wiggle out of the more immediate fact she saw Hakan with her sister in only a robe. XD))

Ryoko actually appeared to be a little more interested now. She glanced from the boy to her sister with a look that warred between outrage and thoughtfulness.

"You really do think you're strongest, don't you?" she asked, sounding curious as she eyed the boy. She leaned her weight back on one heel, shifting her silvery ponytail back over her shoulder and folding slim arms under her breasts. She glanced back at her sister.

"Do you really like him?" she asked, jerking a thumb casually in Hakan's general direction.

-Before Hakan could say anything Mimi had taken his hand in hers, giving it a gentle squeeze. Sure it might drive her sister nuts to see her adorible Ky-chan break yet another Bagheera code of conduct by touching another person-- the same person Mimi seemed to be dating. It was in a form adding insult to injury. Kyaroru, however, couldn't help it.

He gave her strength in a way. He always made her feel safe when she needed it. Mimi bit her lower lip, allowing her gaze to lock into Ryoko's orbs.- Do you think I'd be dating him if I didn't?

((Crap. I am about to fall asleep on my keyboard... curse you Koezi and Izayoi no Tsuki! -wants to read the book... even though she can't read Japanese.- I'm gonna go before I pass out. Night, y'all.))

Kinpoko giggles and pokes Eliza's palm in greeting. Her normal strange greeting. She then punches Eliza's name into her Toadie, since she was also a new person around her.

"Kuru! I am Kinpoko!"

She hops about lightly, very happy and excited. New people made her happy, it ment more subjects to study! And that was a good thing. She needed to learn what Gaians were like, to understand them, and to try and fit in a bit more.

She finally stops, and a beep is heard from Toadie. A strange look suddenly on the otherworldly being's face. She pokes at Toadie, and squeals. Not her usual creepily happy squeal, but a squeal of terror. She suddenly runs out of the bar, yelling at the top of her lungs. She didn't even bother to say goodbye to Eliza.

"Buuuruuu!!! The star exploded!!! Gotta fix Gemrun to a new spot!!!"

And with that, she runs upstairs, as fast as her little legs could take her. And seeing that she needed to find a new star, one that wouldn't go kaputt for a while, this could take her a long while.

Ryoko again glanced from Hakan, in his ridiculous robe, to Kyaroru, then back.

"Very well," she conceded. She glanced back to Hakan. "Usually our women don't even look at a man seriously unless they're stronger then they are. The Bagheera don't respect the weak, much less date them." She raised an eyebrow. "Ky-chan is not...a proper Bagheera, as you can see, but nevertheless." She shrugged, tossing her hair. "The same laws that govern our people govern her as well. You want to date my sister, then you respect our traditions. You say you're the strongest. Prove it. If you can beat me in a fight, well---you are not one of our people, but I'll give you two *my* blessing at least."

She looked them over wryly. Actually, Mimi really should be doing this herself, if she really took Hakan seriously, but Mimi had been teaching her a great deal about what humans felt about things, and one of them was that males didn't fight the females they liked. It had to do with caring for the person, or so Mimi said. Caring had a very different concept in the Pride. Despite the rigidity of Pride tradition, Ryoko felt like she had to make *some* sort of concession.

((*twitch* stupid Gaia. -_-;; now must redo post all over...))

Ryoko studied the young couple for a moment, then shrugged. "Very well then, Hakan-san. We'll decide the place and time at a date convenient for both of us." She brushed off her sister's weak protest as coolly as any Bagheera would have. "You know our laws, Ky-chan."

With that, she spun on her heel, silver ponytail whirling around the tall, slim figure like a platinum whip, and walked off down the hall. Abruptly however, she stopped and turned back halfway.

"And don't think I've forgotten how we met," she added, full lips curling back slightly in a wryly ironic smile. One fang flashed once in the dim light of the hall as she jerked a thumb tipped with a razor sharp claw at Hakan's do-me robe. "You *still* owe me an explanation for that, and in my sister's room, no less. And it had better be a good one, or I swear by Hatti, King of Cats, that I'll make you *bleed*, demon or no."

At the end of the day, after all, Ryoko was still a big sister.

With that warning, she vanished into the hall.