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[instar]

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[hold_infinity]

Robin laughs. "Does that mean we're all complicated?"

[pandion]

"I guess? Aren't we?"

[hold_infinity]

"I don't know. When the point of comparison is Trouble, no, I don't think so. When the point of comparison is some person who doesn't believe in aliens, then maybe."

[pandion]

"Yeah, one of those. Man, remember not believing in aliens?"

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah," she sighs.

[pandion]

"It feels like it was longer ago than it was."

[hold_infinity]

"I know what you mean."

[pandion]

"Oh well."

[hold_infinity]

"I'm gonna find some more people to brag to," Robin decides, and she goes looking for Ethan.

Ethan is with Trouble.

After telling Ethan and Trouble, Bella is the logical next person to find.

[instar]

Bella is upstairs. Charlie's in the room too, but they don't appear to be interacting.

[hold_infinity]

"Hi!" says Robin. "I figured out how to make a lion/tiger/jaguar/leopard hybrid morph!"

[instar]

"How'd it turn out? Is it hard to combine the acquisitions?"

[hold_infinity]

"Not very! I got the hang of it all right, and it was only my first try. I think Trouble's experimenting as we speak," she adds.

[instar]

"What's he mixing up? More cats?"

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah. Snow leopards are fluffy," she explains. "Dunno what he's trying to combine one with."

[instar]

"What's the procedure?"

[hold_infinity]

"...Hard to explain," she says, "although Ax told it to me just fine, so maybe it's just easier done than said. You have to sort of - when you morph just one thing, you know how you think about it first? Think about all the morphs you want to combine. And just... push them together in your head. You're supposed to be able to control the result, but I didn't do a great job of that."

[instar]

"But you like your result anyway?"

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah. My result is awesome."

[instar]

"Excellent. We should all collect a bunch of random humans and fix ourselves up with generic morphs, then, although only three of us can afford to be seen by humans in Forks."

[hold_infinity]

"And some of us can't afford to be seen by humans at all. Although I guess Ax already has a generic human morph," she muses.

[instar]

"Ax is all set, Charlie and Trouble can probably risk it if they fly someplace no one would expect them to turn up - not here for Charlie, not in Phoenix for Trouble, ideally someplace completely elsewise for both of them - and aren't conspicuous finding people to sit next to briefly at the bus stop or whatever."

[hold_infinity]

"Right," she says, "yeah."

[instar]

"And then maybe Charlie - I mean, Dad, sorry - pretends to be an illegal immigrant or that he lost all his ID in a house fire and his parents believed that Social Security numbers were the mark of the beast, and washes dishes or something and rents an apartment. Not really seeing you settling comfortably into the pigeon lifestyle, Dad."

[sundayfish]

"I know you call me Charlie when you're not paying attention. Think you have plenty else to pay attention to, now." He sighs. "I'll see what I can get, I s'pose."