Fionraella

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"The largest animal we had here was a tiger," The Boss explains, feeling the leathery wings beneath his worn fingers. "What the scientists do to get subjects to shift... It keeps them pretty much down whilst they're chained up." He feels warm memories of his travelling days returning to him. "A mammoth, hmm? I was never so lucky to see one. Although I knew a fellow in South America who could shift into a Dodo. Practically useless, but he enjoyed it all the same." His eyes glinted for a moment. "Could I ever meet this mammoth friend of yours?" It was a poorly disguised ploy for Ambrose to give up one of his shifting friends.

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"He's a Brom, so not really my friend." Ambrose shrugs. "A dodo, huh. Was he dumb as a dodo??"

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Dione scurried through the woods after Sacha, her shoes scratching on leaves and bark. She didn't mind. Her thoughts were far more occupied with Ambrose: she sifted through fond memories of his warm smile, his kind words, the heat of his body as the earth grew cold and a harsh winter approached. She smiled despite herself, but then she shook with the realization that, if something happened, she would no longer have any of these things. It was a harrowing thought. He was one of the few good things to happen to her. She wasn't sure what she would do if he was gone. She steeled herself with a comforting thought - she would probably find him near the border, safe as always. It was most likely a simple misunderstanding.

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Sacha frowns, seeing figures up ahead. "I only see four people there.." she facepalms. "Duh, that'd how many were missing!"

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Brianna leaves the room and heads to the elevator, pulling out her electronic pass and scanning it. "I don't suppose you know anything about what he wants?" she asks Mona whilst the two of them wait for the elevator to arrive.

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Mona shrugs. "Something about that kid we brought in. I guess he's running tests and needs help..."

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The Boss should have been annoyed, but instead he was fascinated. Since he'd left the majority of experimentation to the scientists he had not seen shifting in action in a long time. He gasped, and plucked Ambrose off his shoulder. "Look at you!" He took one wing and spread it out. "Look at this... Ah, I haven't seen a bat shifter in many, many years. So small. That's something that has always amazed me about shifting, you know. Humans are such an average size and yet shifters capture all that they are into a body smaller than themselves. Or else they fill out their personality into a large size." He was totally enraptured by Ambrose's appearance.

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Ambrose blinks, bit annoyed at being manhandled, but decided to just let the old man poke at him. "I know right? I love being a bat, not many can shift this small, the largest I've seen in a mammoth! How do you deal with large animals like that?"

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"The Boss?" Brianna blinked in surprise. "How odd, he should know that I'm in the middle of an experiment..." she shook her head. "No matter. If the hand that payeth calls, I must answer." She prepares to leave, slipping on a jacket near the room's exit but gives Mona cold glare before she goes. "I assume you have something to do elsewhere, yes? Leave the girl. She'll be fine."

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"Of course. I'll follow you out." Mon'a says, following her out

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The Boss let out what sounded like a tiny cough of laughter. "Boy, I do not care how you present yourself or wish to be accepted. I have thought of you as nothing less than male this whole time. Why, you look like-" He cut himself off, not wanting the boy to know of his attachment to his appearance nor to remind himself of the past. "Never mind. However, no matter what you may say the blood in this vial-" he tapped the red glass with a finger, "-contains a chromosome we lack experimental data for." He walked over to a desk with a microscope on top of it.

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Ambrose glares at the old man. "Whatever you say old man." He sneers and shifts, flyING over and perchung on the old man's shoulder to get a look at twhat he was doing.

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Oh great... It's one of them. Brianna had to stop herself from groaning out loud. "Ah.. One of the family! For what reason am I blessed with this visit? And for goodness sake, the girl is simply out cold. Probably because you stuck too much tranquiliser in her." Brianna took off her plastic gloves with a huff. "What could possibly be so urgent that you drag yourself to my humble abode, hm?"

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"No way is she still unconscious from that. You did something to her!" Mona glares at her. "Boss needs you anyway, so why don't you go see what he needs."

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Dione nods quickly, gathering herself. "I'm right behind you." She lowers her voice a bit and dissolves into the trepidation plaguing her mind. "I really hope we find him," she whispers softly, clenching her fists to steel herself into determination rather than fear.

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Sacha nods. "Well find him, don't worry." She makes her way through the trees, heading for the border, towards where Destin and the others are, of course.

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"However you act, I shall treat you. Agreed?" The Boss walked back over to Ambrose and pulled up his sleeve. "Admittedly, we are lacking in the Y chromosome department, but it does not matter so much. Our female subjects have given us less than the males so far anyway." He cleaned Ambrose's arm before sticking the needle in and drawing out the blood.

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Ambrose flinched at the sting of the needle, before growling. "I'd prefer if you avoid calling me female or even implying I am anything other than what I am. I am a boy and I expect to be treated as such." He glares fiercely at the old man.

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Mona heads into the testing room with Misha. She gasos, seeing the girl, seemingly dead. "Brianna! Did you...kill this poor girl?!"