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Cassidy rolled into the cafeteria with her nose buried in a book, surfacing only long enough to grab a few things to eat--a plate of smallish, warm, rare bits of meat.

Of course, she had the strangest craving for something that still had fur on it, or perhaps feathers, but that was so disturbing she was really not prepared to face it.

She hesitated by the door; of course, she had to get to a good spot in the book to put the bookmark in.

"Oh no, I'm sorry!" Cassidy grimaced. "I think I parked in a bad spot. You're not hurt, are you?"

Reflexively, her tongue flickered, and the scent confirmed what she had been fairly certain already--she didn't know this person. With any luck, there wouldn't be any ohnoholyshit going on. Her feathers ruffled.

"I've banged my knees on it plenty myself... I think I gotta get bumpers."

Cassidy sighed. For a moment, she felt rather annoyed--it wasn't her fault she looked like this, after all, and it wasn't fair that--

--oh, geez.

Honestly, girl, you were better than this. It wasn't this girl's fault, either. Don't be putting your frustrations onto her.

"Um." Unfortunately, she couldn't think of what to say, either. "Sorry. I guess I do look... um." Cass tucked her placeholder into the book, and tucked it down beside her.

"I... er... I didn't mean to startle you." Cass tapped her fingers together. "I know I'm a bit of a shock right now. Are you feeling all right? Should we get you a drink? I... um, I don't really have anything with me but..." She gestured into the cafeteria behind them.

Despite herself, her tongue flickered out; she couldn't help it, but it did anyway with the urge to know if Chana was feeling okay, and she would certainly not forgive herself if Chana passed out here.

She must be new. Oh, oh dear.

"Okay. Just stay there." With one hand on her own plate to keep it from toppling off the arm of her chair, Cassidy rolled off towards the line. Fortunately, it was empty at the moment, so it didn't take her long to grab a plastic cup full of cold water.

This new girl must not know anything yet. Why me?

Cassidy came wheeling back, her own plate on her lap, the cup in her left hand, and her right hand on the controls. "Here. It's nice and cold. Do you need to sit down?"

"Yeah. Yeah, do that." Cassidy tilted her head, her tail twitching through the hole in the back of the chair. "You, um, must be pretty new, huh? My name is Cassidy."

"A week. Um." Cassidy hesitated, not really sure how to phrase this delicately. "I suppose I'm one of the first people... like this, that you've met?"

Maybe Chana'd had the grace to meet someone with a relatively mild first transformation. Or only other fully human people. Oh, did she ever hate this.

"The only other one I know with scales is Amaya... but..." She shook her head. "I think you've been unlucky to run into both us reptiles."

Cassidy would have ground her teeth if she had teeth that were grindable. She popped a cooling piece of meat into her mouth, and swallowed it whole behind her hand, more to postpone the inevitable than anything else.

The one who tempted Eve. Ha. Cass was rather glad she was more-or-less atheistic; she had enough issues with the whole mess without that side of things. "Green tree python, they told me. With just a little bit," she flicked the feathers on her elbow, "of scarlet macaw. That's what I'm turning into. I can't help it. None of us can. But I suppose I am essentially half a snake. I don't think I have anything to tempt you with, though."

She was pretty rusty on her Bible study, though.