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Inside, the building didn't look like many sets of labs. It wasn't as 'omgclean' as them - not dirty, of course but much more decorated and lived in looking. The main areas weren't necessary for testing or anything, so they could be friend looking and carpeted.

Behind the desk was a young woman, large brown hair and black glasses obscuring her eyes as she wrote some notes. However, a small boy with a hooked beak and blue skin was attempting to sneak out and get into things.

"Heeeeeeeeey. Not for you." she laughed, picking up the toddler. "Silly boy."

(Don't worry, it is)

Apoxi laughed a bit, bouncing the boy. "no, silly, I need those." she cooed, pulling a pen with a kitty eraser top from a jar on her desk and giving him that. About this time, she noticed Rex. "Oh hi. You here about a letter?" Apoxi inquired, kneeling a bit and shifting the boy - who was almost as big as she was - up to a better position.

"I'm Apoxi and this little troublemaker is Asparagus." she said, turning to snuggle him a bit. Unlike most of the kids there, who minded their own business, Asparagus tended to like leaving his room to investigate things. And as such, Apoxi was fond of him and tended to have to keep him out of trouble.

Apoxi blinked. "Huh? Oh, no, Gus's one of the kids up for adoption too. He just happens to be one of the ones who is actually the most social with us." she laughed, patting the boy's head. "Most of the littleuns tend to just stay in their rooms or in the back with the playground and such when they're let outside but he tends to come out and try to get into our stuff so I named him." she explained. "We try to avoid naming the kids so we don't get super attached and so the families can give them a name that suits them and such." it was a sort of odd system but one they worked with.

"Did you want to see the other kids? I need to take Gus back to his room anyway."

She carried him towards where the rooms were. They were of reasonable size for children and there was a playroom they could borrow toys from. "We don't give them any permanent possessions besides a few small ones since we don't know if they'd be acceptable in any new homes they're taken to." the woman explained, "They're given meals three times a day, plus if they come out and ask for anything. They're also allowed exercise in the daytime and I take them out for walks sometimes on decent evenings. I can't just let them run around willy nilly though since we don't want any fights if kids can't get along just yet and they are generally picked up for homes in under a week."

Another somewhat awkward and strange system but it worked for them and it wasn't necessarily cruel or unusual. The kids were being treated well and carefully - they weren't just experiments but actual living creatures that the people happened to need to study. And as children who were awaiting their first homes, they had to be a bit careful with them.

Apoxi pat the boy's head. "This is one of our more social cases. Most of the others don't talk to me much - I think it's cause they're scared of Kayen or of my hair, personally." the woman laughed. "Care to hold him?" she offered to REx.

Apoxi held the boy out and let Gus crawl into Rex's arms. "He's a sweetiepie. Waaaaaaaay more curious than is good for him in a place like this though. He wants to keep all sorts of stuff but we can't give it up."

"Western dragon aaaaaaaaaaand Mermaid I believe." Apoxi said, after a moment's though. "Yeah, gotta be mermaid. Too friendly to be a cross between Hazij and Hvyette."