[BlueInTheShell]

Atrix's hands returned the squeeze, before breaking apart from Mendez and itching her sides while the Terskixian twisted and adjusted herself - Mandibles letting out a shrill, sharp clack while she pondered the half-breed's idea, only to shake her head and purse her lips. "I don't think it needs a full dip in the pools. I'm unable to afford anything like that." She said with a nonchalant drone, looking towards her shoulder and then letting out a small hiss when she touched it. "I could probably just see to one of the doctors filling it. That would hold it at least until have to shed my chitin pieces." Pondering about her future shedding, Atrix gave a small shake of her head and adjusted her hair, before taking a small breath and exhaling, deciding on planting a small kiss on the man's forehead; moving slowly of course. Last thing she needed was people thinking she was eating her interest in the hallway.

Nokra had considered services in the only world he knew, but had never told Magali anything of the sort. Old habits died hard and when you spent a vast majority of your life making something or someone else's life end? It seemed like the only viable solution at times. "I don't even have fancy enough clothes to look like a free Felis either. Guess I'll settle for the whole, fresh out of the collar look for now, until I can get some quantas to look a little better, right?" Nokra beamed, returned her content sigh with a warm, soft purr-turned chuckle. "Well, I mean I guess we owe them for freedom I guess. I didn't stab any of them, so it's whatever to me. Not my worry if one of them goes sour. We're free now. That's what's important."

"I don't even know where to go from here, to be honest. I wanna visit someplace warm. And with somewhere I can spend my time in the water relaxing once all the work on a ship is done. Looking at everyone else, they could probably use the same thing." Rubbing his head, Nokra also decided on finally probing the question that had been bothering him since he saw Atrix. "That Terskix isn't...Bothering you is she? I can deal with her if she is. No one is eating my friend."

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"Congrats to the kiddies. See what I did there?" Riola snirked, before nodding a few times. He never had the worry about getting anything to assert his freedom, and he couldn't imagine both the anxiety and the joy getting identification was for the Felis. All three of them, not just the recently freed duo. "Well, he didn't crash us in a disintegrating ball of death, so I assume his mentor is the best trainer around. Might have to take that girl for more coffee or something." Riola said with a small wriggle of his body, exhaling and letting the stress escape his body. "He'll probably get you an actual night's of rest, si. You need it. Can't let the ship run you, amore."

Rubbing the back of his head, those molten pupils of his faded for a moment and Riola's face grew sheepish. "I figured the other two would probably tag along. I'm willing to work with the two. I just wanna...Keep as wide of a berth as I can from the princess. Princesas just always have a habit of being bad things for wannabe rebels and such."

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Hyun shook her head and let her hair-tendrils jingle while she shaked the 'What-if's' out of her mind completely. The look on her face was stoic, and Hyun gave Ashi a small, deadpan glare. "It's not your fault. We shouldn't have even let the little Star Chick in our ranks to begin with. Should have just told Shaldag to piss it with her. She'd probably have been alive still doing whatever." Flaring her nasal slits, the Chuzizian bit her lower lip for a second, hard enough to draw a bit of blood, only for her regeneration to close the wound a few moments later. "Offer yourself up and you'd probably be dead too. It's lose-lose."

"Well, if they don't have anything, there's always some scrubs or something we can pilfer from the hospital until we get you something you like." Hyun said, looking at the strips of filthy clothing and tossing them to the side. Using a scalpel and not hurting someone was the real challenge here, and Hyun was doing her absolute best; though her mind flickered with brief visions of that knife driving into Ashi's skin and drawing red. "For someone who looks mangled, you look cute, all shuddering and cold like that."