(L) Melissa, I know we've been together for a while as a family and all. I do have one question.

(M) Shoot fluffy. Whatcha wanna know?

(L) Stop calling me fluffy!

(S) Come on Liam, she's not wrong. You're almost as fluffy as me and my sis.

(L) Ugh.... anyways. Some of your laundry got mixed in with mine last night and normally I am fine with that as things like that happen in a large household like ours.

(S) Do we need to expand or build another house?

(L) No, none of the sorts. Kitsuno and I are content with how the house is. Plus the only other thing we would want to have built is an observatory, but we already talked to Veronica about that one. She may have a knack of building things, something of that nature is a bit out of her league with the periscope mechanics.

Now, before we get sidetracked further. Melissa, why do you have red capes and chainmail breastplates? Even more, why was the chainmail in the laundry basket?

(M) Crap, so that's where that went. Was it at the bottom of the basket?

(L) Yes it was.

(M) To sum it up short Liam, I dabble in some cosplay here and there.

(L) Really? I never thought of you doing such stuff before.

(S) At some point before we started working for Aria, Mel here started looking at some famous and infamous characters out there. The leader of the Squeaks known as Daroach is one of them and she has dressed up for the occasion during an event. Sorta.

(M) Oh god... don't remind me of that. I'm still embarrassed from what happened.

(S) Hey, you were the one who decided to go naked underneath the cape.

(L) Sounds like something she would do, but to be embarrassed by doing so out in public, that seems weird.

(S) It's because Daroach was there in person. And she met him.

(L) Oh... so he saw her--

(M) THE Daroach saw me in stark contrast of a female version of himself. Naked and with a magic womb tattoo I had Shade put on me for shits and giggles... which we put to use later, but STILL! One of my many idols and I just happen to run into him and end up making a fool out of myself!

(S) Come on, he complimented you on the fine work you put into the outfit.

(M) I can still feel his gaze looking over me. It's both hot and nerve wracking.

(L) Come on Mel, it's not like you guys knew he was going to be there.

(S) Oh we knew.

(M) WE!?

(S) Okay, I knew. Spinni contacted me that they were in the area and I figured on sending them the address to the convention we were at.

(L) How do you have contact with them?

(S) Spinni broke into our house at the time several years ago, thinking she could get away with some stuff someone left laying around.

(M) Said someone was you because your gem collection was strewn out on your desk.

(S) I ain't gonna deny that that was my fault, as it was near dinner so I didn't have time to put it all away.

(L) Why were you taking your gems out anyways? You don't obsessively keep them clean, do you?

(S) Only if it gets contaminated with something. Other than that, no. I usually hoarde them. The only times I bring them out is if I need to trade or have to forcibly sell it.

(M) And she has a hard time selling them too. Mostly because of her not wanting to, to still having the dumb craving to eat them.

(L) Are you sure you're not related to a dragon?

(S) If I could take a DNA test that doesn't turn into an amalgamate of broken data, I would.

(M) Come around after finishing dinner, Shade and Kitsuno heard something move upstairs after passing by the staircase, they had the feeling an intruder was about as I was downstairs and Veronica wasn't home at the time as she was out visiting family.

(S) I had Kitsuno go upstairs while I snuck outside to immediately spy Spinni jumping down from the roof. I saw her holding onto my gemstone chest and she turned around to face me before immediately doing a one eighty and bolting across the street. What sucked about this was I had just gotten done eating so running was out of the question.

Unfortunately for her, I knew shortcuts. Cutting through trees and other people's yards, I found my way to where she had ran off to, and quickly intercepted the yellow speedster before she managed to escape via train.

(M) Spinni is the fastest mouse thief in the Squeaks. Second fastest only to be outclassed by Ms. Mowz.

(S) Ah yes. That flirty woman. I remember you taking me out on a date one time dressed as her, only for us to get mixed up with her as well during one of her own heists.

(M) Ms. Mowz did say I looked like her younger self back in the day.

(S) Back onto Spinni, her punishment was valid as she broke into our house, and while she was no real threat and just wanted some treasure, I gave her a thorough plapping in bed.

(L) Why am I not surprised that is where that ended.

(S) It's me Liam. I basically have sex with almost anything.

(L) So what happened after that? Did she escape after the vigorous lovemaking?

(M) Actually, no. She stayed the entire night just to sleep after that. The next morning she was in the kitchen making herself some of the tea we had. I got to talk with her a bit and she's actually a very chill woman to be around.

(S) Such is all the Squeaks really. They may seem big bad and tough, but all in all, they're just a group of treasure hunters wirh average everyday lives. Hell, Storro may look like he can put away a whole buffet by himself, and he can, and may be the muscle of the group. He's a big softy.

(M) He even takes his dental hygiene very seriously. Even gave us some tips and tricks to help make sure our teeth don't get strained too much.

(L) Sounds like an interesting bunch of characters then. Perhaps we can meet up with them one day to not only catch up, but introduce them to me.

(S) Oh there is one person of the group you, Veronica, and Kitsuno will be chatting with. And that's Doc. If he's able to build his own robotic constructs and replicate some designs in the blink of an eye, he's your mouse.

(L) I'll mark that down then. Now, what is the chainmail for?

(M) Oh, that. That was a cosplay I did as an experiment that went not as well as planned, but ended up not doing it in the end. I had forgotten where I had placed it years ago.

(S) Surprising how it managed to get lunped with all our stuff during moving process from our old place to here.

(M) Which is possibly how I found it again after several years of it being buried. I left it in the laundry room to get some brushes and cola as there was some slight rust spots on it from disuse.

(L) How did it end up falling into my batch of laundry?

(S) I don't recall needing you for anything as I remember seeing you grab some cola out of the fridge.

(M) Veronica or Kitsuno probably needed me for something and I ended up doing something else instead. A load of laundry must have been going as I did set it on top of the washer. So the spin cycle may have knocked it down.

I'm gonna need that chainmail for one of our daughters. She just graduated in rank in the academy she's training at, so I figured why not give her something to start off with?

(L) How thoughtful of you Melissa, but isn't that chainmail meant more for cosplay?

(M) Hey, when you are given the materials, with or without force, and can make it, go big or go home. It's battle ready.

(S) I'm sure our dear Sammy would love to see it regardless.

............

(L) Shade, are you okay? You don't look so well.

(M) Well, she did just eat half a cake.

(L) Yes, a triple stuffed fudge cake. Clearly that's not great for her diet.

(M) Well, when her sweet fang gets in the way, she can't help it.

(L) I believe the expression is sweet tooth.

(M) Have you seen how sharp her teeth are?

(L) Point taken. It still makes me worry about when she consumes stuff though. Like she has no limitations until it hits her way too late.

(M) Her high metabolism does that to her. Especially when she gets in a sugary mood and will buy as many sweets that she likes to see how much she can stomach before her body starts rejecting it.

(L) ....oh dear.

(M) Relax. She's not gonna vomit. When I mean by rejecting it, it usually means her body just stops the craving immediately and she gets all sluggish and crave more water.

(S) Ugh......

(M) And it seems to be hitting her really well this time.

(L) How often does this happen?

(M) Not too often to where it is considered rare, but not to much to where it is common. At least it's not like her ice cream binge she did a couple years ago. That ended real fast.

(L) Intense brain freeze?

(M) Big time. She may be hot blooded, but brain freezes can immediately shut her down for a few minutes.

(L) Despite having a high metabolism, all those sweets have to be going somewhere to her.

(M) Well, you're not wrong. She did get to a point where she did put on a little bit of weight. It was more noticable if you looked at her when near Kitsuno. Shade had some slight chub to her.

(S) Buh.... I worked it off. I'll do it again.

(M) Hush you lovable dingus. Enjoy your food coma.

(L) There is going to be a point where her metabolism will more than likely slow down.

(M) I know. The day she stops eating a sheer amount of food for no reason is the day we all dread.

(L) Is it because she keeps most of the food eaten so we don't have as much left over?

(M) That and it is concerning to see her not eat. Shade is a foodie, and I am as well. She's only stopped eating certain things due to it tasting really terrible, she's allergic, or those times to where she is severely depressed. Other than that, she'll wolf it down.

(L) At least she can make some people happy to have them know their cooking is good.

(M) Just don't tempt her with blackberries.

(L) How come?

(M) She loves blackberries. There was this place where she got a milkshake so good where she would do anything to get her hands on it again.

(L) Oh? Is the place no longer around?

(M) Sadly no. The owner passed away recently and nobody was able to keep the place. So they shut down.

(L) That's a shame.

(M) Shade said, and I quote. "I'll suck someone off for a milkshake that good again."

(L) She never goes towards sexual favors for food. That must have been good.

(M) Maybe one day I'll make something on that level and be happy to see how she devours it.