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Shadai tugged Cody along through the massive hallways, not allowing the spawn to even think of touching the precious paintings or sculptures. "But mommy," Cody whined as he was, once again, yanked away from a pretty gold statue.

"Cody, for the last time, you can't touch them. If you do, the security guards will take you away and leave you in a cold, dark cell alone. You don't want that, do you?" Shadai asked, sighing. The toddler quickly shook his head and shoved his hand into his pocket. "No mommy. No want to be alone," the toddler muttered, believing every word of his mother's little lie.

As they walked along, Cody noticed another spawn ahead of them and instantly started to tug his guardian towards her. Giggling softly, the female allowed herself to be led over to the two. "Hello, I see you thought it was a good idea to come here as well," she muttered, releasing Cody's hand now that his attention was mostly somewhere else.

"Allo, what your name? I Cody," the toddler said shyly, waving softly to the other in greeting.

Shadai smiled, glancing down at Cody briefly before switching her gaze back. He would be fine. "I assume you picked her up at the Seven of Seven facility? Ah, how rude of me, I'm Shadai," the female said calmly, having gotten fairly used to randomly running into other spawn from the facility and was suddenly wondering why she hadn't seen them before. Maybe Cody was like a magnet, always drawing others towards him.

Cody giggled and touched the feathers in his hair. "Thanks, your feathers pwetty too," he said, pointing to the feathers on her ears. They were pretty, yes, and in a color he had yet to receive from his friends. He wondered if he could offer a trade, a feather for a feather.

"Trade? Feather for feather?" he asked, grinning. If she was so excited over their color, the trade should appeal to her, right? Of course, this was his first time meeting someone with envy for their sin. This would be rather... interesting.

"Please, call me Shadai. There's no need for formalities," Shadai replied, shaking the others hand. "And this is really your first time? Good luck then, you won't stop seeing them from now on. I don't mind since it... occupies Cody enough to keep him behaved," she added, holding back a sigh.

Cody grinned and plucked a feather from his own hair and quickly checked it over to make sure it wasn't bent or misshapen or damaged in any other way before handing it over to Lulu and taking the feather that had been offered to him. "Cody's feather. And thanks!" he thanked, grinning happily as he delicately held the feather, examining it happily. Another feather from another friend. He was going to need a new place for them soon.

Shadai nodded, smiling softly. "Yeah, about half a dozen, probably more. And misbehave is... A bit harsh, to me at least. He's part Greed, and loves stealing things he finds interesting or likes and hoards them away if he can't bargain for them first," she explained, ruffling the toddler's hair.

"Welcome. Fair trade, and look mom! 'Nother pwetty feather!" Cody said as he felt her attention switch to him, holding up the feather. Shadai giggled and nodded.

"It is pretty, did you say thank you as well?" she asked, getting a soft nod in return. Cody then proceeded to carefully secure the feather in his hair for safe keeping. He had found out the best way of keeping them in there only a few days ago while he was grounded for a few hours to his room after stealing something else with a little more value and irritating Shadai to a snapping point.

"Should go see other zibits," Cody suggested softly, finding the paintings kind of boring, but not minding one bit if they had to wait a little bit while his mother talked to Lulu's mother about stuff.

"Patience, thankfully. What's Luska's virtue and sin?" Shadai questioned, then looked down at the two toddlers, nodding. "I don't mind, and Cody doesn't seem to either. What exhibit have you two not seen yet?" she asked, searching for the map she had gotten of the entire museum only to find it gone.

"Cody, I'd like the map back please," Shadai said with a sigh, holding her hand out after searching fruitlessly for a couple of minutes and finally figuring the toddler had taken it out of irritation and boredom. Scowling, the toddler reached into his pocket and pulled out the map, shoving it into his mother's hand.

"Thank you. Now, where shall we go next?" Shadai asked, ignoring Cody's scowl. She suspected he also had her car keys, if the jingle of metal against metal softly sounding as he shoved his hands into his pockets was anything to go by.

"Envy? Huh, similar to greed, but not one to hoard things," Shadai muttered, then scanned the map for the Egyptian exhibit, one she could probably belong in. "Ah, here. And not lost, just unable to see the correct pathway to take you where you want to go and thus taking the wrong one. Come on," she replied, glancing at Cody as she heard her keys jingle.

"I'm going to need those back later, Cody. Don't trade them away either," the Egyptian female warned as she started down the hallway and towards the hallway that would lead them to the new exhibit.

Cody grinned and nodded, replying rather simply to her question. "Course." Once he heard that his mother knew, however, the scowl returned briefly before fading away as she started to wander off. He'd be able to keep them, for now. Which was an improvement, since she generally demanded for them to be returned. Perhaps it was because they were with another family... He'd have to remember that for later.

"Want to see surprise?" the toddler asked, excited to show off his excellent stealing abilities, since it took a true expert to successfully take your mother's car keys out of her bag when you only came up to her waist in height.

Shadai giggled, glad she could make Rein feel a little better about herself and her bad sense of direction. She paused, however, when the toddlers still hadn't moved. "Come on Cody!" she called, sighing.

Cody nodded, fishing around in his pocket for a moment before pulling out a set of shiny car keys and proudly showing them off. "Got 'em when mummy wasn' looking," he replied, grinning excitedly and even dangled them a bit to make them jingle. "Cool, right?" he asked, curious as to how she felt.