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Suki seemed mostly pleased that the other two were talking about her without really seeming to understand the negative undertones of being well trained. If anything she was proud, holding her head up a little higher.

"I am a good girl." she agreed with Melvin with a nod before raising a brow at him. "Tricks?" she said. "Taught by Mistress?" she looked thoughtful.

"She taught that I wouldn't like to lose my leg! So I shouldn't steal Bonny's!" she beamed before looking back at the skeleton trailing. "Bonny has a minipet! We only need nine!"

"I'll settle for her assistance with the trapping, since that's why we're out here." Jordan took out one of the trap bundles from the bag and held it out in the inugami's direction. "Here you go. Why don't you get started?" he said to her. Then he added, "That's Bonny's minipet, and I'm sure she'd like to keep it. Ten."

The Inugami seemed surprisingly all right with being told a flat no about Terry and shrugged her shoulders at the strange minipet. "You can keep your legs too!" she said, as if this was really very generous. Jordan had the bag taken from him with a pleased yip, Suki taking it eagerly. "I will make you so proud of me, just watch. So many pets!"

She scrambled over with the traps and began to set one though with the dexterity involved in setting the trap up she seemed to change ever so slightly in the way she moved, as if drawing upon some much older muscle memory. She seemed hardly to use her left paw at all, despite it being there, as if she'd become used to not relying on it at all.

Moment of concentration over she returned back to her bright smiling self. "One down!" she said. "And I set some traps earlier too that we should check! I lose a lot of minipets!"

Jordan retrieved several traps for himself before Suki took the bag. "I think I'll delegate petting tasks to you," he said to Melvin, his eyes narrowing slightly. "I'm sure you know just how to perform the task."

He set his traps with the ease of long practice, placing the equipment and applying the charms. "Good job," he said absently to Suki. "Where are your other traps?" His mouth pulled down a little at the comment about losing a lot of minipets. I'll bet you do. He recalled the careless ease with which Lawrence had been dispatching the minis he was dissecting, and wondered how much of the work was actual study and how much might just be play.

"I'm doing all right," he answered Melvin. "Staying busy. Working a lot. How have you been?" The question was polite, a little cool.

It was clear his gun was going a step too far and so he backed off for now.

"Same. Working. Um...been trying to talk to the guys since I hadn't talked to much of anyone for a while." He had dedicated himself to Laer and distanced himself from anyone who so much had had a negative thing to say about him or being up issues he didn't want to hear about.

"Been kinda up and down a lot....Commissioned Rin a tombstone so... She at least has that now." That it was over and she was finally at rest.

"Been thinking of picking up a hobby." He thought out loud. He went to work on another set of traps and hear one of his go off only to find nothing. Resetting it, he returned to look around.

"Do you like being out alone, Suki?"

He smiled at Suki. "It's good to get some time to yourself to think, doesn't it? I think a walk through the forest is nice. I don't ever think of coming here for just that. I usually walk a beach." He informed her and looked up around them at the trees. It might not be actual Earth but all composed from humans as FEAR, but it was beautiful in a way.

"I'm not sure yet. I was wondering if I should do photography...to preserve moments I wish I could look back on more clearly. But, I've never been any kind of artist and don't think I'd be very good. So I've been just thinking of ideas right now. A lot of the hobbies I had back home aren't any I can do here. Boating and swimming are dangerous and no place to really ice fish on a tropical island."

He checked a few more traps only to pull out a boot.

"Photographs sound FUN." Suki said eagerly. "You could take so many photos of me Master, so many, I'm very pretty. It doesn't matter if you are good, as long as I'm a good girl, its no problem." And she beamed at him. "Swimming is fun too! STICKS AND SWIMMING!"

Suki didn't seem bothered by Rodney's question at all, yet some of the fur along her arms and her neck seemed to stand on end as she turned to him.

"I chopped them up. Chopped them up lots. I'm going to be so pretty, a good pretty girl. I'll know fear, I'll understand it. So good. Maybe I can take it from the tiny little minipets. Happened before! So small, like eating moths, maybe there are eaty parts. They were my ten!" she barked, seeming to be able to take umbridge at Rodney who was neither a mistress or master and was made of edible parts. "Mine!"

She huffily stuck her nose in the air. "Don't even know what humane means." she said. "Notta human."