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I had the impression that these "experiments" happen all the time. You'd think you losers would've gotten used to it, by now, but I guess that's too much to ask.

Gotta give those Malnosso guys credit, though. They really know how to throw a party.

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[You know, actually, Nina was not going in or out of her complex, but she did ... take note of a rabbit lurking outside of a building she's walking past. Okay so she doesn't know it's a rabbit, but there's some small animal hiding out there.

...And now she decides she wants a snack. She slows to a very slow pace and carefully observes where she thought she saw the movement]

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[...Suddenly having rabbit senses is really bizarre. For one, Vanitas can smell a lot of things. Which would be pretty awesome, if it weren't for the fact that they all kinda blur together and confuse him and essentially suck. Also, human smells like ass, and it's everywhere.

So he's unaware he's being hunted, for now. A small rustle from the bush he's hiding in, and his face pops out from amongst the leaves in plain view.]

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[ Sweet, it's some sort of rodent she can munch on. She reaches inside of her jacket, pulling out one of the spare knifes she likes to keep up there. A balanced one she can throw, and she slips this into her hand all covertly like. Her sidearm would just be bad sport, right? Now, she casually heads towards the entrance of the building as if she were going in.

The animal might be timid and run, but either way she should be able to get close enough to throw the knife in five, four, three...]

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[But timid he's very not, and definitely not expecting this person to be as violent as himself. And it's hard to see that she's carrying a weapon when he's five inches off the ground, so he stays put, ears flattening slightly as he waits for her to open the door.]

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[...And... there.

Okay, as she reaches the door, she tosses the knife. Ideally, this might hit the rabbit through the head but if it doesn't, well, that's when she's going to make try #2 less than a moment later in the form of a pounce to try to get it in her arms. Her reaction times are on par with most rodent-like animals with the particular nervous system she has wired internally right now after all]

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[Vanitas prepares to make a bolt for it on her heels when--

he looks up just as his ears pick out the sound of something whistle through the air. Fffuuuc-! Rearing back not a milisecond too soon, the knife thunks into the ground a hair's width away from his front paws, and takes the end of a few rabbit whiskers with it.

And immediately finds hands coming down straight for him. NOT COOL, but at least he has teeth for chomping!]

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[The teeth-! They pierce her flesh but rather than back off, that makes her smirk get wider. It's fighting back? A rodent like this? It's either the dumbest species ever, poisonous, or, perhaps, sentient. Any one of those possibilities means that she must get a grip on it.

Which she's going to try to do right now despite the fact that the clamping down probably drew blood]

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[This is definitely not going as planned. Blood tastes pretty vile to a rabbit's palate, but Vanitas isn't letting go. Not immediately, anyway, and digs his teeth in while kicking his back legs and twisting. But trying to free himself is pretty much useless, he's realizing... along with the fact that he has very few options. He's guessing her next move will be to snap his neck, which he'll be powerless to prevent unless he breaks his silence.

He'd die first before he'd beg for his life, so when he finally releases his jaws, eyes a little wild, his (much smaller) voice is only slightly more strained-sounding than usual.]

You've gotta be bored, to put this much effort into catching a single rabbit.

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[Oh right- they talk here. She was going to snap the rabbit's neck, yeah, but hearing it articulate a point like that. Well, let's play with our food a little]

Bored out of my skull, really.

[That said, she's still making sure she's got a firm grip on the guy]

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[Well, any second he gets to live is a step in the right direction. And he's thankful she's up to talking.]

Understandable. I was in the same boat, up until an hour ago. [Right, those struggles have all but stopped. In fact, he seems pretty calm now.] But things change.

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[Oh good, that means she can do something needlessly cruel like shake him a little. Which, in fact, she'll do right now. Lalala... ]

Taking it you weren't always this rat-thing?

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[ARGH. That's really unpleasant, and makes him flatten his ears down again.]

The word you're looking for is "rabbit". But good guess.

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[Hmm... nope, a second round of shaking comes after that correction]

Really. Native to wherever you're from, I take it?

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[fffffkafj he wants to bite her again so bad, but holds himself in check.]

Something like that. Common enough that most people wouldn't pay them a second thought.

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Basic herbivore, right? [Okay, she stops shaking, just for now]

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Basically. [Oh, thank Hearts.]

But I should probably add, this isn't my every day self.