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Faleen smiled a little, name badges to go with the uniforms was a horrifying idea. And even if it was meant at a joke, the idea of Lore actually getting his name on his uniform was pretty funny.

"Claire was one of the Rockets assigned to that mission that ended up in the mines as well."
She told Lore, gesturing gently to the other Agent, something Claire could join them in.

Her hands folded on top of her tablet after she ad gestured in welcome to Claire.
eyebrows arching again as Executive Lore voiced interest in seeing the prototype ball that they were working on.
"Certainly. It is stored in one of the robotics labs when its not being worked on. Its nothing pretty to look at quite yet..."
She had an idea, reaching down to tap her pad back to life, and shuffle through the files, pulling up a sections of the plans, and a 3D rendering of what it was going to be like, handing the pad over to him.

"If you are interested, I will be sure to inform you when the prototype is complete"
It was taking longer then normal, since she was only able to work on it in her off time. not that she minded, what else would she be doing? other then pokemon training.

When his fingers touched the screen to move the model of the prototype ball nothing responded.
Faleen was quick to remedy this though altering see that the Executive wanted to explore the model more, even if it was just to move it back and forth.
"Let me fix that, sorry."
black fingers on her gray gloves quickly taped in a series of touch pads at the top, previously hidden.
after she did this, his touch was able to use the tablet properly.

"Its certainly not for everyone, I'm quite fond of it myself" to put it lightly.
"If you don't mind me asking, do you have any field specialties?"
She had to admit, she was curious, he had to be qualified to be an Executive for some reason, she wondered what it was.

Well, this was actually interesting.
Technology and robotics wasn't quite as interesting to her as biology and physiology, but still they were talking about a pokeball. Something that converted and contained a pokemon; now that was always intriguing.

She picked at her food, left hand maneuvering a fork, while her right idly laid upon the cover of her novel.

Her eyes watched the exchange of the pad, though she tried to make sure she wasn't staring noticeably- just an interested prolonged glancing.
Until Lore did his trick.
Well that was just distracting anyway; a smile tugged one corner of her mouth with some small amount of mirth.

"" The Zorua chirped back in a friendly manner, his tail wagging happily. "" he turned around and then blinked in confusion as he only saw an empty seat where his master had once been, leaving his food behind. Tyke then started to look around frantically, until he noticed the unique long red hair of his trainer near the gathering.

Apparently Asch had a sudden change of heart as he soundlessly appeared behind Faleen, arms crossed as he watched Lore's little trick with the poker chip. Green eyes watching the executive for several moments, his expression unreadable.

As more and more people seemed to flock to the table where several of them already sat, Lilith could feel herself becoming more and more nervous. She never was terribly good in large groups like this... But it wasn't all bad, she reminded herself. At the very least, she wasn't lost among a sea of strangers here. These were her teammates, her coworkers, and her friends. Yes, her friends... What a pleasant thing to hear in her mind. She was among friends. ...Imagine that.

The brunette Agent smiled politely as Faleen joined them. Her former roommate seemed to be doing well for herself: that was very good. She also acknowledged the appearance of Claire, whom Lilith had only met a time or two previously. She was an Agent as well... Everyone seemed to be doing so well. It made Lilith a little jealous, but rather happy as well. They were a team, after all. They all needed to work together towards the common goal.

Silently, Lilith politely listened to Faleen chat with Lore about... some technical things. She didn't quite understand what all they were talking about, but the poker chip trick the Executive demonstrated was interesting, to say the least. Her attention was suddenly pulled away from the conversation by the sound of a mumbled grunt from behind her. Startled, Lilith quickly turned around and saw her Gastly, Nerezza, hovering behind her, a slightly annoyed look in her eyes and a bag of chips in her mouth, hence the Ghost-type's murmured announcement of her arrival. Lilith sighed happily and carefully removed the chips from her Pokemon's fanged mouth. "Thank you, Nerezza! I had nearly forgotten. Here." As payment, she opened the bag and pulled out a handful of chips for the Gastly, who swallowed the food with gusto.

Her task done, Nerezza looked about her human at the other people standing and sitting about the table. Most of these humans she had never seen before. ...Not like it really mattered to her. Humans came and went, and she could give two damns about what happened in between. What did interest her, however, was the little poker chip trick the more handsome of the humans had done. ...How did he do that? Her blue eyes widened as she stared in wonder. Surely this must be witchcraft.

The babes were just flocking to him, weren't they? Huh, maybe headquarters was not so bad after all. Hell, it was fairing much better than the gals in that run of the mill joint back in Cinnabar. Moose let his jaw hang loose to mutter some rather flirty words until Sorano cut him off.

" 'ey there, Claire." he waved than draped that arm over Lilith, bumping his head lightly to hers. " 'mind me ta take ya out one a these days . . . 'hen them higher-ups unpin me from wrigglin' on tha wall."

Moose squished his once bag of pretzels into a crinkly mess and threw it into Sorano's lap, hoping to distract him to wriggle his eyebrows a bit more. In all honesty, his attempts made his look more like a child making silly faces that so-called, "provocative expressions." Sorano's mouth drew itself into a very narrow, chapped horizon but he ignored the gesture.

"Grow up a lil, would ya Moose?" he sighed and let the bag roll to the floor, bumping the snoozing Flareon beneath his feet on the noggin. "Sheesh, ya jealous er' somethin'?"

Moose grumbled. Hey, it was no fun being the only trainee who hasn't been on a super cool mission, okay? It wasn't fair that everyone got totally awesome black and white uniforms when he had to wear a standoffish red. It was not fair!

Never's eyes peeled back from heavenly slumber as the bag rolled from his head fluff to the front of his nose. In a short snuff, he snorted away the bag and stretched up with his hackles dancing on their ends. Had he a pair of hands, he would have gingerly scratched his backside. Rather, he crawled up Moose's pants leg, jumped from the man's crotch (there was a terrible guttural bawl that followed from the poor man) and slid onto the table without so much caring if he stepped in someone's lunch.

"Flare." It is here he declared his hunger.

Tambrey smiled back upon her watching being noticed, offering a little raise of her hand in greeting to both Lore and Faleen though with a little flush creeping to her cheeks. She knew they'd likely have no problem with her taking an interest, yet the inexplicable and reactive guilt that comes with being observed observing decided to make her feel just slightly worse by giving her that short-lived embarrassing, tinted hue.
She looked away, as if to ensure she wasn't about to miss her mouth with her food, using the action to let the blush subside, before looking back again, continuing to listen to the conversation.
She rather wished she had something to add or offer, but she'd not been on another large mission since the Ariados one and as a grunt, anything she got to do in the labs was a little uninspiring compared to the work that others could do. Still, it was pleasant enough to eat and to listen; there was definitely a feeling of 'ease' here that she just didn't think -could- be felt around the others of Lore's rank.
The pokemon around were also leaking into her senses and there was a temptation to allow a couple of her own out to eat or play. A moment later and a small ray of red light brought a little red and black aron onto the floor next to her seat.
"There are lots of pokemon in here, and I know you haven't seen this room yet." Tambrey explained to the small pokemon, who then decided to head under Tam's seat instead of exploring. "Okay, well that's fine too."
"Ron!" Ella chirped, then sat on the floor, a curious if wary expression gracing her tilted head as she watched, mostly, other pokemon.