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Freedom! Blessed, blessed freedom. Touda stretched his legs as he bounded through the park that sat near the Harte Pharmaceuticals building and let his tail stream behind him like a banner. Being invisible was handy, it made it easy to sneak out. Though he'd never tried before today. Today they were doing things to Anise and she never felt good when they were done. All she wanted to do was sleep. She was no fun when she was sleeping and Touda had no intentions of letting the brothers Harte stick needles in him. So it had gone to reason that today would be the perfect day to escape for a little while.

Crossing the road had been a challenge but now that he was in the park it was a challenge that had been well worth it. The sounds of clashing metal drew him to where two men appeared to be sword fighting. One was shorter and broad, the other tall and very clean looking. The little mononoke couldn't resist coming closer to watch, secure in the fact that neither of them would be able to see him.

Touda blinked when Antony turned his way, he hadn't expected someone to be able to see him. As far as he knew, Anise was the only one who could see him naturally. The little mononoke did a bit of a hopping-from-one-foot-to-another dance as he eyed the two men. They didn't seem all that dangerous but he wasn't about to let himself get caught. Still, he was confident that he could definitely outrun them both if it came to that and his little hoppy-dance moved him closer to Antony.

"You're not very good at that." Touda observed, eyeing the weapon dubiously.

"I'm Touda." Touda said, eyeing the blade and then Antony. "I'm a ghost?" His voice raised at the end, as if he was asking a question though it could almost be taken for a statement. "A mononoke." He clarified. Touda himself wasn't one hundred percent sure what that meant, exactly. It was the title the awful Doctor had given him when he'd sold him. As far as he could tell, it meant ghost. Thats what his guardians claimed. Touda didn't remember having died, though. He gave Antony a furry grin. "Your friend can't see me?"

He'd been listening to their conversation and his furry face contorted into a little frown at the question of where he came from. "I came out of a crate." Touda informed Antony. "Some guy put me in a crate, I guess. And some other guys took me out and now I live with them." He gave the equivalent of a shrug. "I don't know where I was before, though." His frown deepened a little bit. The little mononoke had never really bothered to think about his past or if he even had a past before the crate.

The long white ears perked up in interest. Though he was developmentally young, Touda still understood a lot more than he let on. "Someone else in a crate?" He asked, tilting his head. "I think there were a bunch of them where I was before I got bought." He said thoughtfully. "I burned up my crate but it didn't break." He added, sticking his tongue out in remembered frustration. "Robbie won me in a bet." He added. He rather liked the idea that he'd been won in a bet. It made him feel cool and edgy.

"Ummm..." That was not the easiest question to answer, as his perception of time was a bit skewed. "I don't know." He said candidly. "Me an' Anise have been at the lab for a few weeks, I guess. But I don't know about before." Tail swishing in potential agitation, Touda did a little hop-skip. "How old are you?" He asked back, his tone decidedly cheeky.

His tail swished again, though this time it was in mild irritation at the fact that the two didn't seem phased at all. Still, it was a good opportunity to learn a little bit about the world that Robbie and Charlie wouldn't teach him. They'd kill him once they found out he'd gotten out. "So whats with the sword work?" He brandished an imaginary foil and did a few fancy steps. "Why ya gotta learn to fight?"