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Tomias clopped through the door, head turning as his gaze shifted wildly about the room. His deer-like ears flicked about slightly before perking up forward toward the group of what appeared to be misfits. He was without all of his equipment and tools, which made him rather jumpy - well, more jumpy than usual.

He paused, gazing at the group before sidestepping behind D'Nyz, hind quarters spinning around to appear the other side of the man unknowingly. His glossy tail flicked once as he picked his feet up high, fidgeting uncomfortably about.

Tomias leant around D'Nyz, peering at the group from safety. His fluffy ears were perked, although his right seemed to twitch and flick about a lot, perhaps from anxiety or merely just a random happenning within Tomias' brain.

No matter what was going around his brain, Tomias seemed intent on the human-looking girl - well, he supposed she was a girl. She had murmured something, but even his ears couldn't pick up the exact words.

After a while Tomias bravely took a step from out behind D'Nyz, leaning around to see more of the group. He warily studied the dark being, ears flicking nervously back and forth, before his eyes moved on to study each of the figures. He quickly came up with name labels in his mind and, judging by appearance, whether they were a threat to his work and equipment.

There was the human, the dark demon, the little human demon, and the spiky-haired devil. He rather liked the names he had come up with, although he daren't utter a word, for fear of them making a move on him.

This Tomias would bear keeping a watch out for more so than the others Snap thought to himself.
It was nearly always the cowards who turned out to be the largest liability. Selfish individuals were at least predictable and could be guarded against. Biggots were easily predictable in their actions and reactions.
Cowards were just too unpredictable in any situation that was stressful to them as their thought processes became muddled by fear.

He didn't think that Caleb would purposefully mix in such an obvious liability into the group. So there could be one of several reasons for including this Tomias in the group. Calab was putting them all to the test. Tomias was just acting the part but his body language had no subtle nuances to it, he was an open book. Tomias had some skills of note that made the risk of using him in any endeavor worth the risk.

Yes, he would give this fellow the benefit of the doubt but Snap would still keep him is the "Known Hazzard" catagory for now.

Great looming D'Nyz answered Snap with no more than a slight nod, before he placed a slightly battered-looking container, about the size of a smallish shoebox, down on the desk next to Caleb.

Beaming, the blonde youth opened the box, revealing...

Nothing awfully exciting, actually. Fairly low-tech looking visor-style eyewear. He lifted one out, and held it up for inspection.

"They're nothing hugely fancy or high-tech: just good, old-fashioned units for voice and visual communication. Now, this isn't an indication of what everything here is going to be like. Over the years, many, many things have been tried... but these have been settled upon because, unlike some of the more impressive systems, the simply technology is very difficult to track in the background communications rabble, the units themselves are easy to dispose of and destroy, unlike the implants which were being trialled for a while there --" he indicated a small scar just beneath the bony lump behind his ear. "-- That was two masters ago, while the sectors were divided up differently. We almost lost a tower after a cell were captured.

"Er. Certain female Tower denizens have insisted that we produce a variety of colours... so feel free to take your pick... I really don't understand it, but they insisted..." He replaced the one his was holding in the box, drawing out another pair. He moved out of the focus of the group, to speak with Hewitt. "I think these will better fit you, though," he said, handing them to him. They were mirrored white, and noticeably smaller than the others.

D'Nyz gestured for Tomias to join the group. "The sound is conducted through the bone behind your ear," he rumbled. The futher implication in the statement was, obviously, that this was why there were no earpieces, and that they should not be alarmed by it. His attention drifted to Snap. "Your eyes?" he asked. Again, the whole question was perfectly clear: did Snap see in the correct spectrum to use the display.

((Brain... notworking...))

'"I think these will better fit you, though," he said, handing them to him. They were mirrored white, and noticeably smaller than the others.'

Hewitt accepted the headset from the larger hand, turning them over and over in his hands as he inspected them. Eventually, he found them too his liking, especially the choice of a white finish. He glanced up to D'Nyz and nodded his appreciation, though he wasn't quite sure the floor master was looking.

Hewitt hooked the pair over his ears, and was pleased by the near perfect fit. He could feel the slight pressure behind his ears, more than would a normal set of eyewear give. He would enjoy figuring out exactly how they worked.

"I am glad to hear," D'Nyz replied to Snap.

Caleb was watching Tomias, chewing his bottom lip. The centaur was absolutely an open book. He knew that Nixie would complain... but that was irrelevant. Nixie did not really need to have anything to do with him. He was fairly sure that Tomias and Andre would get along well enough.

((Er... feel free to mill and chat and whatever... I'm going ot be awya for a couple of days --again-- ))