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[puppydogeyes]

[Taylor is looking better than she has in a while, less agitated and more steady, but there's still a frown pinching her brow for the announcement she has to make.]

Genetics lab is to be considered hostile territory. The place is fucking infested with those rats and attempts to clear and secure the area aren't putting a dent in their population.

[And she wasn't wasting any more ammo on trying it.]

You really want to head down there, you let me and SEC know. Don't go alone or unarmed. You want to do a proper run and need a security detail with you, we can provide one. Otherwise stay the fuck away.

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[northerner]

If anyone needs an escort, Grey Wind and myself would oblige them.

[ because maybe giant ass wolves would scare off the rats for a few minutes, who knows ]

Though would it not be wiser to close the area off?

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[redhotsummers]

Are you going to be setting up patrols to make sure people are staying away?

[puppydogeyes]

I don't have the access to seal those doors. And I'm betting the way we found the place means anything like that'd glitch out anyway.

[Half a shrug, which is a more casual gesture than she really feels for the issue. She doesn't subscribe to the thinking of it being okay when people ignore her warnings and get hurt anyway.]

Sometimes I've gotta rely on people here having some common fucking sense.

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[puppydogeyes]

Don't have the bodies to spare for that.
We get an actual problem, might have to put a guard on it.

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[redhotsummers]

I'll run by there on my off days, anyways.

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[goldshirt]

Hey, did Johns sign up for security?

[wolfinthesnow]

Do they need a reason? For us to take them?

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[puppydogeyes]

Kind of out of the way to put on a run.
Don't want to get lost around there.

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[puppydogeyes]

Yeah, he did.

[And she has a feeling what this might be about, but she waits for Kirk to say it first.]

[northerner]

And the captain will not oblige you with them, I take it.

[ ward ur a butt ]

A risky thing, but let us hope it doesn't come to a bad end.

[puppydogeyes]

Prefer not to waste the team's time on people that just feel like sightseeing.

[puppydogeyes]

Ward gives me as much access as I need.

[That's a lie, but she doesn't openly badmouth Ward or Resnik on the network. She needs their cooperation.]

I'm hoping that every goddamn day.

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[staytofight]

Do you need anyone to go play exterminator on their off days? They haven't been able to bite through my skin, so they're hardly a problem.

[Even if they could, he's not so sure they could make him sick... He's kinda marble-y and stuff. Don't quote him on that. But regardless, kicking around annoying pests is just a lot of fun, to not offer.]

[northerner]

[ robb doesn't challenge her on it, because there's wisdom in it, in not openly stating such things. he inclines his head, amiable. ]

I'll help in any way I can. If people wish to go, all we can do is try to keep them protected.

[wolfinthesnow]

Aye. Any requests then, who should they go to? You and you alone? Or Ser Edgeworth?

[intersection]

Do we know how they're managing to stay alive? [ ... ] Apart from what they managed to eat off of us, I mean.

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[chromosomes]

Never thought I'd hate rats so much.

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[skindeep]

Do you reckon rats dream? Maybe I could play the pied piper and lead them off somewhere else.

Though they'd probably need to dream and sleepwalk for that, wouldn't they.

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[supfirehawk]

Are the rats the only thing in there now?

[interns]

[ Gwen has a minor teenager moment of going SERIOUSLY?! at her comm, but, that's before she turns it on. ahem ahem. ]

When is the soonest I can get down to the labs for about thirty minutes? The tests I need to run aren't too time sensitive, but after a few days I'll have to collect new samples. Which.. means finding another manticore and another rat to- [ to kill and take samples from baaaarrrrfff ] -um, donate their body to science.

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[doggedly]

but do you want more presents

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[puppydogeyes]

[She doesn't even seem to miss a beat at the idea of someone with skin that can't be bitten through. Too many weird things on the ship to get tripped up by something like that.]

Don't know if it's gonna make much difference. They're nested in there, they're breeding. Can't even get a rough estimate on how large the population is.

[puppydogeyes]

Probably eating each other. And I'll consider it a fucking victory when I find out how the damn things are surviving the jumps.

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[puppydogeyes]

Not usually high on the cute and cuddly list.

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[puppydogeyes]

I'm not taking you in there to try it. And if they're anything like the manticores, you don't want in their heads anyway.