[Splat]

"No reason, just wanted to know," Ark said calmly, "Though if your not going to answer me I might as well ask that vyyker I saw you with earlier. But asking me if I'm ANOTHER lab reject gave me a good hint. And just so you know, I'm not a lab experiment, just unlucky with nature."

"When I said another I meant you and that," Dionysia gestured over her shoulder at the goth-punk intern. And what makes you think you're so important that anyone would tell you anything?"

He turned to the vykker, "Your not a very polite little servant, are you?" He than turned and started walking off towards Krik.

That was about enough for Dionysia. The word 'servant' really infuriated her, particularly after her conversation with Krik on the way down here. She grabbed the arrogant mud by the shoulder as he turned his back on her, and then with her other hand slapped him in the way only a mudokon can, leaving him sprawled on the floor of the cafeteria.

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Jim stared after the big mudokon with an expression of mute (and it must be said, somewhat confused) indignance. Good Odd, what is the world coming to, if mudokons won't stick up for other mudokons?
Grumbling to himself, and still coughing a little, he decided he should probably head towards the lab in case he needed some medical attention, and started climbing the stairs outside the grinders.

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Anni made a sarcastic snort, "A nice vykker? There are more talking slurgs! Trust me, vykkers might pretend to be nice or kind but inside they just want to gain for themselves and hurt people for no reason."
The sighed miserably and leant back against the wall, "This place was ok for the first year or so I was here, but then there were a couple of sligs..." She thought of Stivik and Nick, but then she had made up with Nick afterwards and had been sad when the Magog Cartel called him away. And Stivik had been sent here by the Cartel to watch Arnie.
"It's all the Magog Cartel's fault," She said out loud, "Wherever they go they ruin things and make people miserable. After those sligs everything was different."