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Sherry was investigating. Slinking down quiet corridors, opening quiet doors. This compound was odd, and not seemingly organized in any real way. She was doing what she could to figure out their pattern, but things seemed a bit haphazard for her tastes. They did appear to at least lump living quarters in one building, but everything else was still a bit of a mystery.

The whole island was a mystery. It would be easy if they could just make someone tell them how things worked, but unfortunately that wasn't going to be possible. They had to be discreet.

So here she was, just trying all the door handles she could, taking peeks into rooms, mentally noting what was where.

Sherry turned to look at the speaker. He didn't seem...concerned. Her disguise was holding, then?

"Offices?" She asked the question as normally as possible.

She took a few steps towards this strange human. Cautious steps. She'd kill him if she needed to. But as long as her disguise held...maybe she could question him.

"If...I want one? Who is my lead, and why would I show him birds?" She was very confused.

Labs? As in laboratory? That could be useful. Sherry, Sen was her proper name, filed the information away for later. She didn't have time to think about it anyway. This strange human was now calling her odd names. Bilbo? Was that an insult? She raised one eyebrow in irritation as he then set about explaining what tits were. She looked down at her own chest in the borrowed shirt and then back at the human. Slang terms, it seemed.

Before she could inquire much further he was shoving things at her. "Excuse me," she said, taking the boxes on reflex. Ew. They were filthy. They stank. Wait no, that as him. Her nose wrinkled in disgust. He smelled of chemicals and...human.

She was in disguise, she shouldn't ruin her cover. They had an objective, and she couldn't endanger that. Play along, she told herself. Besides, it sounded like he was willing to barter. Help for showing her something. Maybe could barter for information. It would be less... obvious than torture. Discreet.

"What will you show me? Is it tits?" Show tits, get things -that was what he'd said before. Were they trading her help for tits? "If I show you tits will you do something for me?"

"Oh, I see," she said. Show tits to your boss to get things. So it was more like a bribe, then? Why couldn't hard work and excelling be good enough for a boss? Actions and success were worth more than tits. Humans, ugh.

"Gee Em? Right, of course." She didn't know what that was. In fact, much of what he said next didn't make any sense to her. Arpee proposal? Premade character? Join the next meta? It was like he was speaking minipet to her. Panic was beginning to set in as she realized that he expected her to understand. She was going to foul this up and she couldn't afford to. "Dragons and battles. It sounds very exciting," she said, latching on to the words she did understand. "Crazy weapons? Cannons? Exciting indeed."

Wait a moment. Were they planning an attack? Battles and weapons? Dragons? Was meta a human slang for attack? She would not be surprised if they were planning an attack - they were little nuisances. She needed to find out more.

"My tits?" She blinked at him. Once again, he said things like he expected her to understand. She had no idea who or what a Mimsy or a Caroline were and she had no idea how humans judged the quality of such things. She could not answer this question. Panic was rising again; she needed to be the one controlling this conversation.

"Well," she said, dropping the boxes she held and making dust fly up, "I'm not entirely certain." She stepped in closer to the stinky man. "Perhaps you can tell me. I'm a poor judge of tits, but I'd like to know if they're good." Maybe she could use them to get information from her boss. As she reached down to pull up her shirt she continued, "I'd like to know more about this meta as well."

The smile on her face was there because she imagined how much fun it would be to stab him in the neck, but she hoped it passed for pleasant.