Nope Catch lunch and meet up with Molly!

First thing is First, since your already shifted into the wolf form you decided it might be best to return your shoes and socks to your room so you don't miss place them somewhere. So instead of letting your nose lead the way as you have in the past you try very hard to try and navigate the shop by sight so your using the signs. It does not take to many wrong turns before you realize just how it works since when it was explain to you did not quite get the image of what was explained. But you realize shortly after the third wrong turn that your wolf form has a natural instincts for direction and you just can fall into motion with what you feel is right rather then what is. And next thing you know your standing before your room door.

You of course shrug to yourself as you look up at the door number and realize you found it without using your nose and some how ended up here. All the same you step into your room to set down the shoes and socks, You notice a couple of notes on the table and decided to give it a moment. You go to the bathroom to wash your hands and face a moment and get a good look at yourself, and realize the uniform does suit the form pretty good. On the way out you stop at the full size mirror to check for sure, you realize having your tail sticking out is a bit awkward. But you also realize if it was under the kilt it would be a pain to sit down mostly.

You lead yourself over to the table and read the notes left for you.

The first one reads,

Alex, The elder was able to help me change back and I practiced a bit on my own and think I got pretty good control of it. The elder says she could not be more proud of me, thou she added that it was not something for which she had foresaw happening. But all the same she is very happy, she also said that she liked the T-shirt you had me wear. See you a bit later, the elder sent me to check on one or two things well I was presentable so to speak. Also the other Saber-cats had been a bit on edge when I entered as a human but they got over it by the time I left.

With love,

-Pam

You look at the second one reads,

Alex, My mother wishes to thank you she is happy that I am with pups. We got it checked after we dropped the clothing off for you, I noticed you had another women in bed with you. She was kinda cute, I do hope I get a chance to meet her. I also hope I get a chance to visit again soon but if not, do not fret I will see you at some point I am sure. I also hope you like the necklace I felt it was a bit more personal then an amulet or wolf fur and I realized how you felt about the shame of having to use a real wolves fur.

With love,

-Lisa

The last note reads,

Alex, Mother said you would be busy today. I stopped by to leave a message and saw others already had, I will be working with Kamrin and the pups some more. And I wanted to add that I felt maybe you and her worked out your differences last night. I read the other notes and I know its not good to butt into other peoples business but I noticed that Pam had turned human according to her message. Thou I will say I am not surprised I will say I am a little shocked it happen to her instead of another before her, I am going to stop by and visit with Abby a bit today as well to see how she is doing. I hope your first day of work is eventful, thou some could say the things you did up til now had also been work.

With all the love in my heart,

-Petra

You smile at the fact that Petra tried to clearly show the difference in her love vs the others thou you know if the others had seen her message here they would have mostly signed it the same, you decided to leave the messages on the table just encase anyone else stops by. You look about the room for something, your not entirely sure what it is til you realize you can't wear your watch in this form since the bands are to short and decided you need to ask Max to get you a watch made or something. You look at the clock and see it's about lunch time so you decided it happens to be time for your break one way or the other.

So you slowly make your way out of your room thinking for a moment you run your hand over your neck and play with the fangs on your necklace with a smile on your face, You think for a moment and try to decide what you want to do for your meal. You weigh this and that and decide to go visit the Cafe on your own, the environment is not as busy or at least you don't think it will be and they bring your food to you and so on. You also decided you might need to talk to Max about the name of the Cafe and hope he might be willing to allow you to rename it. At the moment you think maybe naming it the Barnyard sounds about right, then again your not sure if that is a good thing to call it. Maybe you could call it the Feeding Trough, thou your not sure how others or even the Animorphs might respond to this.

You shrug as you enter the Cafe and wait to be seated, you don't happen to have to wait long before your waved over to a seat to sit. Your not really looking at who is doing the waving but once you sit down the Animorph looks at you a moment and then Nays at you a second before saying " Well, if it does not happen to be the big bad wolf."

You look up to see Goldie is standing over you and you just smirk at her and say " I have a name you know, and if you look close it happens to be found right on my chest."

Goldie looks down at your shirt and smiles to herself before licking the name tag and smiling and saying " It's alright Alex, everything is ok. I was just saying hello, and being friendly."

You just give a curt nod and ask " So what is the special today? I need food and a lot of it and I want it to be good."

Goldie looks at you a moment and says " We never really considered doing a special, maybe I will have to talk to someone about that later." She thinks for a second and then says " I would not know how it tastes but I could tell you it smells good, I would recommend you have the brazed beef brisket, that comes with onions and carrots and it all tastes smoked and grilled would hope it would taste good. I can bring you a whole brisket if you like, but I might have to take a second order of something else to leave some for others should you need more food."

You and say " I will take that and any other grilled meat that might be good in a large portion and onion rings as well as a large cup of fresh milk."

Goldie looks at you funny for a second for asking for the fresh milk then smirks and says " No problem, I will bring you a cup the size it was last time you had been here. And for the other grilled meat I will bring you grilled ham slices, they have pineapple and brown sugar on them. I will make sure to bring you a large stack of the ham slices thou, it will be very good. Or so one of the pig girls say, I find it strange they would eat their own wild cousin but they seem to enjoy it."

You then ask " So Goldie, what do you eat here if you eat?"

Goldie thinks for a moment and then says " Salad, I like the Salad. Simply dressing good flavor, any veggie you can think of is in it."

You then nod and say " I will take good size salad to start then, just put a light olive oil based dressing on it will you?"

Goldie nods and goes to get you the food, in no time flat almost you have your salad and your fresh warm milk in front of you and Goldie has a smile and says " I will bring the rest over once your done with the salad." She smiles and goes off to help another customer. You look down into the salad and can see at least three kinds of lettuce, carrots, two kinds of onions, more then one kind of mushroom, olives and what you might figure to be fresh artichoke heart. You poke at it a bit more and find two or three kinds of tomatoes, cucumber and few kinds of wild roots or as best as you can figure them to be. You smell at it a moment and just nod and start to eat, after a few bites you notice a few berries in the salad as well it adds a good nice sweet taste to the rest of things pretty well. It tastes pretty good on the whole, and you figure since your not taking supplements or anything eating this has got to be good for you in some way.

When she finally brings over the brisket and ham, your more then ready for it. You take a big sip of your fresh warm milk and lick your muzzle because the milk is lip smacking good. And then start in on the brisket, the moment the meat touches your tongue your senses catch on fire. It's not that the meat is spicy it just that the meat brings out a primal urge in you to eat more, you can feel it all over your body the urge to have more. Your very happy that she made sure to add ham to your order, so you do got more to eat but you make sure to pop onion rings and other stuff in your mouth as you eat it. By the time you finish the brisket your more then ready for the ham, and you find the flavor so excellent you lick your fingers off after each piece. And after you finish the ham your **** to check to see if you still have your fingers. You finish off the rest of the milk around the time Goldie manages to get back around to you have cleared off the plates.

Goldie looks down at you a moment and you can't help but feel maybe she needs a pair of glasses, but all the same you smile and say " Thanks for the meal it was good, very feeling and make sure you tell the cook the brisket and ham was almost as good as sex. Mind you I said almost."

Goldie lets out a snort as she was not expecting that response and then says " Thank you for coming to eat with us again Alex, I do hope you return again sometime."

You just give half nod as you get up and exit the Cafe but not entirely sure what you should do now, you look this way and then that. And you realize you had only been given the instructions to be in the Gargoyle habitat so you figure maybe your done for today. You clear your mind of thoughts and sniff about, you catch wind of Molly and you trail off after the smell. Your pretty sure it happens to be a fresh scent your after, It does not take long before you come on a staff door so you figure. Might as well enter now and see whats up, It's not like they say things are off limits or do not enter.

You walk up behind Molly, and rub your muzzle against the top of her head and say " Guess who"

Molly just shakes her head pretty fast and almost knocks you over from the **** of her head turning up into your muzzle and says " Oh I am so sorry Alex, I did not expect you there. I was just doing patrols and saw you eating with a smile on your face in the cafe, and I was getting read to write up a report. For your activities today as well as mine, Max says I have to teach you how to do this sooner or later. And it can in fact be done on a computer in your room, thou we have to make sure to put on in. Which is the reason I am doing it here. It seems when Max made up your room he made it look like how you kept your room, if you notice the bathroom even has a larger then average bathtub. And a shower stall just like your room had, I am also having to get him to change out the bed or looking into him giving you a larger room. Then again if you had not heard he is building a new wing for you and all of us and the pups and all."

You smile and just nod to yourself as you look over her shoulder and say " Yeah I heard it brought up once or twice, so I guess you know that Lilith and I had a good time then? I learned a great many things, and I seem to really impress her thou sadly because of what she is I can't sleep with her often. Thou I guess that is for the best." You lean forward and kiss Molly on the cheek and add " I want the original anyway, even if she is a sweet girl all the same. I have to go back to help and or watch her lay at least one of the eggs, thou if time allows it I might go back to watch each them every couple days til she is done. I heard it can take a week."

Molly types quickly to add the information you stated and then turns up to look at you a second and says " That will be fine I put it on your daily rounds so to speak, Petra and I are returning to your room today. I talked to Kamrin and she seemed happy after she got a chance to think about it, I have plans written for you to meet with Abby tomorrow along with her little pup. I want you to take Petra and Pam with you and the two of them for a walk outside tomorrow, I expect you to be human and I hope that Abby and Petra have clothes by tomorrow and you can loan more to Pam if you like or have her go as a Saber-Tooth Cat. I just kinda hoped you would bring Petra and Pam to your house to look around, Max is still working on getting it updated so it might connected to the shop for the wing he is building. This way you can live in your house or the shop or it will be more or less one in the same you know?"

You just shrug and say " I am not sure what a connection to the shop might do to the property values."

Molly laughs and says " There is no chance in hell of resell, so don't worry about it. You own it, and the shop well you get the point. Your life your home, you will have zero commute time. And you and I need a chance to talk soon as well, I have told Max. That from now on your quarters is to have no video or audio, since things are stabilizing more or less. You are adjusting and if you have something to tell him more then one of us is capable of running the message including yourself, so as you know with the Gargoyle thing your work for now is to focus on you and what you like or want to know. I figured the Wings or the Gargoyles a good start, so the question is what do you want to do next as in tomorrow."

You look at Molly a second and then say " I want to do something more relaxed, something where it happens to be just the two of us all day long doing whatever it is you need to do. So I can see what you do and watch and take part and so on."

Molly looks at your reflection in the monitor as she keeps typing and just smiles and says " Don't worry about it Alex, tomorrow we will just do a normal check up on things." She looks at your hands as they drape over her shoulders and then says " On second thought I am never going to bother teaching you paper work Alex, your fingers are way to big for a keyboard. I am sure if I explain to Max that you just give all reports in person or to someone else to report it. He will understand, it's not that bad anyway. You could always just connect a voice program and mic to your computer when it has been put in and just recorded your reports to be logged and typed later mostly."

You just smile down at her even thou she can't see it, you never liked paper work. You had always been more of a get up and go kinda guy, do the work and talk about it when it is done. Because of your old job you never had many reports besides to report that the job was done. Here you get the feeling any action you take might need to be reported. Considering this a moment you say " Molly make sure to make a note that says Lilith is second to Demonia, I figured it would be easier for the others who had not been use to having a messenger that needs to be listened to much in the fashion that Pam is in the stead of the Elder the same should happen for the Gargoyles."

Molly nods to herself and reads what she is typing then says " I already started to enter that information, I had kept an eye on you from a distance. Which makes the reports that much easier to make, not to say your being watched everywhere, I just figured if I was going to leave you to complete the task as you saw fit that I should keep an eye on you til you left the habitat. I had gone to eat around the time you seemed to return to your quarters, and I happen by the Cafe around the time you had left it seems. Which is why I guess that means you followed me here, because I just started to type as you came in."

You realize now is a good time to take note of the Cafe's lack of name and say " Molly make a note to suggest renaming the Cafe, I was thinking the Feeding Trough. I had a few other ideas but I felt that one was most fitting."

Molly laughs and says " Go figure you would be annoyed by the lack of a name for the Cafe, that you would go and suggest a new name. Either way I am sure it's not a problem, Max might even be Amused by it."

You then decided to ask Molly about something Petra asked " So did Petra bring up the fact she wanted a chance to go for a walk in the normal world so to speak, and with how long I have been down here I was thinking it as a good idea. And all thou Pam and Petra are a bit larger then normal I was thinking we might be able to pick up some clothing for them, and see what in the world we might find for me. Then again, I am not entirely sure I can fit in my car."

Molly laughs again and says " Don't worry you know as well as I do, their are good shops not far from here. The three of you can go for a walk if you like, you might even want to bring Abby along. Thou honestly the four of you together even as humans will stand out quite a bit. You being well over 7 feet, the girls being just under 6 and half or so. Each one taller then the next more or less, Petra being the tallest besides Pam I mean. Pam got a bit taller as well, she is pushing closer to your height but not quite, your still bigger then her."

You shrug and just say " See, I am going to need to talk to Max about getting a special transport vehicle."

Molly laughs again and says " It's called a Bus."

You shrug and say " I don't know how to drive a Bus, and what good is a Bus if it's only to be used by 8 people more or less?"

Molly laughs again and says " not worry about it, we will make sure you get licensed to drive a bus. And we will also make sure it's made for you to drive it. Max and I had already been talking about the fact you might want to take the little one's out into the wild to explore and experience it. Thou Max made a point to suggest that we make sure hunting season is not open before doing it, never know what people might shot at if they are not expecting it. And he also suggested we have a ranger or two with us when we do it. He said it might be a good experience for the rangers as well but all and all that is a long way off. At least over a year or more."

You nod and smile at the idea of taking the pups out for a run in the wild or to track animals and see what they can do in an open area, you rub her shoulder and then ask "Then again why done we talk about maybe getting a large piece of land with open fields and forests and rocky area's and the likes maybe even a lake and river and setting up part time there for the heck of it. Kinda like a retreat so to speak, and it would welcome owners and their pets no different then here. Only difference would be that they would have to pay for there trip so to speak and it would be for vacations and the likes. The owner staying at the retreat would only be paying for his room and board so to speak. Maybe 150 dollars a night, but random owners could win the right to stay for free as well, this would allow for people like myself as before given a free pet to be able to afford it. Then again at 150 a night taking paid vacation and the likes I could more then afford it before well you get the point."

Molly just nods and says " One more suggest to make note of, others had talked about something close to that at one point but it never got carried out."

You nod and say " The rooms would be underground much like here, that way the land is undisturbed for the Animorphs and Owners to enjoy. We could call the resort the Fox Hole ? Or the Wolf Den? Or The Warren, since the idea is to make a series of tunnels not unlike a rabbits colony. Maybe we call it one of them and then use different locations or places like the Fox Hole, as ways for people to find their rooms and the likes. And it might help us decided how we design the rooms since it is going to be a resort and or spa after all. And then above ground we have a large restricted Air space, and land area that allows the Morphs to play and fly however they like since nothing can fly over the land. I am sure you can get some kind of rights to prevent it on the whole, I mean Max and his family have managed far more after all." You scratch your head and then add, "The Cafeteria, could be called the Hollow Log any number of other things that might be fitting. I mean in the wild animals eat things from out of logs, so in some ways it makes sense to name it as such. And it really does sound kinda good, I mean the one here and there or either or neither."

Molly pats your hand and says " Calm down I know you feel this sounds like a good idea, and I will make sure to record it all and type it out and make sure it looks nice and tag your name on it. I am sure Max will be happy that your thinking of new things to consider still, and directions for the business to go or to consider going." You watch as she finishes typing what you suggested and she says " You would be surprised how well I can type with these paws it took some getting use to but after I did, I realized I never used more then a few fingers typing anyway even thou I tape so fast."

You rub your muzzle against her head and move it down to kiss her cheek and say " It looks like the report is about done, so what are we suppose to do with the rest of the day?"