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Since the events of yesterday and meeting Cody, Gallen was in a foul mood. The rest of the previous day he spent back in his Duplex, reading and waiting for his sister to visit, yet once more she did not come. Night came and Gallen found it hard to sleep again, dozing off every once and a while as he read.

Finally Dawn came and with it a bright new day. The sun was rising, the air was cool; tranquility of this environment made it the ideal for his morning tai chi exercise. Since he was 5 and living in Hong Kong, every morning his tutor would have him up at the crack of dawn performing the motions for Tai chi. When he finally moved to the US, to live with his sister, this daily routine of getting up early and performing the motions of this exercise continued. Now here in what one would see as the ideal place to find inner peace, Gallen begun to prep for another session. He ran back to the lake, though he felt he might meet Cody again, he took the chance. The area was perfect for his exercise. As he got to the lake side, he pulled off his shoes and dug his bare feet in the ground, starting stretch out. For a few hours he worked out his tai chi and then moved ionto practicing his martial arts. He enjoyed working out and as he started to take another stretc he caught a glimpse of something crumpled up by a log. being a curious fellow Gallen made his way to the strange object to find that it was a crumpled up piece of paper. What was written on it he could not make out, nor make senses of.

Gallen looked up form the piece of paper and saw the old man. Finally some one normal looking. Judging form what Gallen could make out this was probably one of the lab techs who worked her. He smiled and waved back. “Good Afternoon sir”

You could make out the 5 foot tall man's slight irish/UK accent

Gallen smiled and shook his head, "no sir I am practicing my Tai chi, and fighting style" He tucked the paper in his pants pocket as he started to walk towards the older man. "Name Gallen Marcuss. I juts got here two days ago, I take it you work for Feral?"

Gallen extended his hand as he smiled, realizing that this man was quite tall. “Oh, I am sorry. You’re a report? Cool, I was studying communication at my college, aimed at being a radio personality and report.” He smiled as he shook the man’s hand, a little intimidated by the man’s height and age. Tall people bugged Gallen, but this guy seemed nice. “Oh so you’re here to do an article on Moreau? That is neat”

Gallen looked at the old man blankly. The heck, forcibly retired, what was this guy on about? Gallen noted the firm shake and tired to pull his hand free. “Trapped here? Why would Moreau do that?” He rolled what Richard said in his mind some more, “And why would he force you to retire form your job?”

Gallen was now confused…again. What was going on first the dolphin boy now this crazy old man. “What are you talking about? Animal-Human Hybrids? If this is some kind of joke it is not funny.” The he saw his sisters face in his mind… Then Cody ”what is she doing here with these people” he said in a low voice. “Yhea I am staying in one the duplexes, they are where the lab techs live, I am here to see my sister who works for Moreau.” Gallen’s voice was harsh, he did not like this. Was what the old man saying a joke.. or was he tricked.

With each question, Gallen became more agitated. His sister would not have him brought here to be a test subject for some crazy sci-fi experiment. And of course that kid, Cody, tail and all where deformities, right? Galen could not grasp what was the truth, he wanted to keep believing that he was here to see his sister. “That is cracked; my sister would never have me brought here to do such a thing to me. Yes, I got too close to something, I was taping Feral lab’s New York phones, trying to find my sister. She diapered a year ago. Then after all hell broke lose and I was expelled from NYU, Feral came to me and told me it was a misunderstanding and that I could find her here.” Gallen’s voice was loud and angry. Lizard girls and what not could not be real. “And what about Injections, yhea I got one, a ammonization for this tropical climate, it is common you know.”

Gallen backed away, but at this point what Richard had said, did make senses, though Gallen had not seen all the armed guards. “So this is all a lie? I am sorry I have trouble believing that. Yes I met that boy, Cody, but what says his extra features are not deformities. At the same time you do not work for Feral and are a prisoner here, so you claim. If that is true then why should I trust what you say.” Gallen was sounding much calmer now, but still his heart was racing, could all of what this old man have said be true. Was he brought here to be a prisoner, or worse et a test subject for some crazed doctors experiment. And if he was making Anthroporphs through injections, was the vaccination really one of those injections.

Gallen then remembered what Cody said before he ran off, “I hope they make you a slug.”

“Oh man, I don’t want to be a slug.”