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"Nick's right, Ship, maybe you should cut down on the tea," Eve said, giving the boy a small laugh before pouring some tea into a mug and adding her fixings to it. She glanced down towards Jude and gave him a confused look, "Import? Um, he's from a different region if that's what you mean."

Once finished, Eve carried her mug towards the table and took a seat next to where Ship had been sitting, "Hybrid-supremacy? Not really. There's a fair number of humans within our group. In fact, the leader is human."

"Sometimes, but it should fade away before long for you. Channeling with the meteorite is not natural, it's parasitic really. You aren't using that rock, it's using you." Sub told Reno, walking through the main area of the building, heading to the stairs, and going on down, walking into the holding cell area, and eventually making it to the cell that once held Io. "Remember Io staying here? Her drawing is still there." He said pointing to the scribble.

Alex couldn't help but notice how many people there were. She'd never seen so many members at once except on missions. "Oh! Maybe they're getting ready to go on a mission! I wanna go!" Already, she was getting excited in vain. Searching through the crowd, the blonde haired girl approached Terashi with a grin. "Are you going on a mission? Can I come? Huh?" she asked. It seems she'd forgotten what she came downstairs for.

"What?" I blurted, surprised to see Dan's young friend all of a sudden. "I, er... it's not like that. Something very bad almost happened to our friend, Sub, and we were sitting her waiting for him to get back, sharing stories of our pasts, that sort of thing," I explained to the young girl. "...and drinking things very harmful to our bodies, apparently," I added under my breath after catching a glimpse of an alcohol bottle amidst all the tea paraphernalia.

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Keiko kind of frowned when Sol explained himself. She found it hard to relax with Sol 'flaunting his power' like that. Of course, were Sol to literally flaunt his power, stuff would be on fire. But since Keiko was feeling protective of Al, due to her bringing him in her in the first place, she couldn't help but over-exaggerate a little.

She turned and gasped to the sound of the little girl's voice opposite all. A reaction like that was sure to scare him, but she couldn't place blame on a young girl's curiosity. She just hoped it wasn't too much of a scare for her friend.

"It's- you know what, actually, just whatever you have will be fine." Nick grinned. "I'll introduce you to Earl Grey later."

And with that, he retrieved a mug from the same cabinet that Jude had just opened, putting his other hand on the hybrid's arm. "Hey, leave some for me."

Reno shrugged his shoulders. Not the oddest request, but you could never know. Touching the picture with his hand, Reno asked Sub, "So what exactly should I be feeling right now?" Reno questioned his leader, unsure pf the usefulness of this exercise.

"Yes, yes," said Jude, and he poured the rest into Nick's mug. Which happened to be substantially less than his own. "Oooh, this is a heavy kettle then." He set the kettle down and offered his mug. "Trade? This tea smells a little strong. Very black, too."

Ship raised a hand. "I am the tea maker. The residents enjoy my tea."

Jude's eyes were trained on Nick, his tail curling over his head. "I guess that means you get to be guinea pig, my bodyguard."

As Nick and Jude negotiated tea, Ship chanced one of these Petaya berries from Eve. They seemed exotic enough. "Thank you," he said, then popped it in his mouth.

His normally plain countenance brightened from the flavor. It was very...sharp.