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Julian reconsidered his comment and nodded, wincing slightly.

"Yeaaah...true. We attract trouble like moths to a flame, anyway," he said. "Ha! Unless new and exciting counts in...ah, Jesus, I can't even make a joke out of it. Life has gone into a standstill. All the excitement we're used to..." he shrugged. "Better dullness than having the soul ripped out of ya by force."

He noticed her expression then, taking one on that was quite similiar.

"What is it?"


Crow giggled, then nodded.

"Y'know...I think I will. I mean, after I actually finish a project. One's almost done, I can absolutely claim survivor vacation time after that," she said, pleased she'd remembered. Then she smiled, hugging him closely again.

"You'll make a lady blush, talking like that," she said in shyly pleased tone.

"Cages...I don't like that...they're not gonna kill them, are they?" Len said, eyes widening in fright at the prospect. No one had been able to give her a proper explaination, and she truly had no idea what was going on.

With a delighted squeak, Sadako clung to Skelly's arm and pointed randomly at one of the animal's cages.

"Skelly take Sadako to see furry things?" she asked coyly.

Ethan, caught, shifted back very slightly and put his hands in his pockets.

"High school...heh, those were the days...lying? Bjorn, the exams we have to sit through...ugh, I don't even want to think about them. I really have lost some kid of brain matter," he said easily, trying very hard to steer away from a potentially dangerous subject. He shifted so his sleeves twisted around his wrists, obscuring any view of his arms.

Meanwhile, Doll was looking around with the joy of a five year old. Stopping by a random cage, she looked down and noticed a little bone-patterned boy she thought she knew. Or maybe not, Doll wasn't that good at remembering faces. Or names.

"Hello, little bone-boy," she said, kneeling down to his level. "My name is Doll, who are you?"

"Slow down, Rose!" Green called and rushed to reach the bunny child that was racing just slightly ahead of her and towards the tent that seemed to be the busiest. Puffing slightly as they finally reached the entrance, the blonde whoman secretly cursed Rose's discovery of legs and speed.

Confidence surged within Rose's little body as she poked her head inside the tent. Such noise! The newness and unfamiliarty of everything (except for one or two people she thought she recognized) brought a delighted smile to her face and, after she'd taken the proper time to absorb her surrounds, Rose darted off towards the panther in the back of the tent. After all, he (or was it a she? Rose didn't particularly care) was the creature that looked the most interesting.

Delphine was just waving goodbye to the panther when she caught sight of the bunny girl running up alongside. "Waaaait." She called up to her mother and detached herself from her leg.

Kay looked around and then down to see what had suddenly caught Delphine's attention. She smiled as she spotted the other Mishap standing near them, Delphine was becoming quite the social child.

Delphi toddled over awkwardly and then looked at the rabbity ears in suprise. "Why dont you taked em off?" she said waving her hand at the long ears, not realising that unlike the rabbit ears her mother had subjected her to at easter time, these were infact attached.

Green's poor heart had nearly given out when she'd spotted Rose running amongst the people. What if she tripped and fell? What if somebody who wasn't a nice person at all offered the toddler some candy?

"Rose," the woman yelled desperately as she hurried to catch up to her child, "please, wait for me!"

Her mother's cries weren't considered to be much more than an annoyance and Rose decided that staring the panther in the eyes would be much more fun than waiting for the ridiculously slow woman. So, that was exactly what she did until a small voice that she didn't recognize spoke up beside her.

Rose turned to consider the other toddler and then, after a moment of thought, tugged on one of her ears to show Delphine that they were quite permanent.

"See?" Her large rabbit-like front teeth stood out when she smiled.

"Oh." Delphine said slowly, cocking her head to one side. After contemplating this for a moment she gave a quick nod. "They likes my fins." She spread them out proudly, always keen for a chance to show off, "and like Woo's ears." She paused and shook her head sadly, "Woo at home, he's dirty."

Kay quietly watched the two toddlers talk for a moment, but looked up when she heard a woman's frantic cries, ah, she knew that tone well, she'd sounded liket that many a time worrying over Delphine. She waved over at the woman and called out, "This one yours?"

Swallowing with difficulty, Julian tried to find the right way to say it. Or at least not irreperably embarrass himself.

"I kinda...when I saw you...ehh."

He took a deep breath.

"I found it really attractive when I saw you feeding and I wished you'd do it to me," he spluttered, turning away and feeling his face catch fire. Well, figuratively, anyway. He'd seemingly lost his "gift" of fire after he'd gotten the marque.

Oooh, candy. Taking the lollipop and examining it closely, Len grinned and ripped the wrapper off, sticking it in her mouth rather forcefully.

"Thanks, Bah," she said thickly. There was a loud crack as she bit a sliver of the pop off, and she chewed it loudly. She pointed at random at something scaly and rather alien looking. "Wanna go look at that thing?"

The sign beside it said 'pangolin', what ever the hell that meant.

"Jean Michel," Ethan said, voice a thread. "He did not like it when I made mistakes."

He decided to omit telling Bjorn what kind of mistakes he'd been making to earn such a punishment.

Now this girl was cool. Green hadn't yet succeeded at teaching Rose proper manners for the bunny child just didn't have the patience for silly things like that. Therefore, Rose always acted on first impulse. Without bothering to ask, she reached out and prodded one of Delphine's fins with a finger. The texture was entirely new to her.

"Wow," Her eyes were wide and there was an impressed note in her tone.

Then, all that talk of Woo thoroughly confused her and all Rose could do was stare at the other Mishap as she tried to makes sense of the situation. Did this girl know Woo too?

"Woo is VERY dirty," she nodded agressively. That was something she could agree with and it didn't confuse her in the least.

Green looked at the strange woman with surprise. Had Rose managed to make friends already?

"Yes," she sighed as she finally managed to catch up to the child, "she's mine. Thank you for finding her for me."

Kay didn't look like the type of woman that would try and lure little children into vehicles with promises of puppies and cake. So, Green smiled and, seeing that Rose was preoccupied with another little girl, held her hand out to Kay.

"The name's Green."