“Good morning Mr. Conner!”

Teddy comes to a stop having just been about to leave his apartment complex, he turns around and looks behind him to whom had spoken, spotting the shy girl who liked to keep her appearance hidden within many layers of clothing, he recognized her as another tenant of the building he lived in and smiled when he sees her. “Hey Lumia, you’re up early today.”

Lumia nods her head. “Yeah, I’ve been having bad dreams, I keep waking up every five minutes. I thought that maybe taking a walk around the building would help.”

Teddy shrugs his shoulders. “You should really just stick to your apartment, you’re going to worry your dad wandering around like this.”

Lumia laughs at the comment. “Dad won’t notice, he sleeps like a rock!” She looks up at Teddy. “You’re up pretty early too, don’t tell me that you’re already on your way to work?”

Teddy nods his head. “Afraid so.”

Lumia grins at the information. “You must have a pretty important job then, having to get up all early like this. So what do you do for work these days? Dad says you work security! Is that like, the security that works at the mall? Or a police officer or something?”

Teddy shakes his head no. “No, my job is a little more involving then that.”

Lumia’s eyes brighten. “So then something like a body guard then!”

Teddy shrugs his shoulders. “Yeah, I suppose you could call it that.”

Lumia looks to want to know more. “Oooh!! Is it a celebrity? Are they rich? Famous? Is it a girl? If it’s a girl I bet that she’s really pretty right?”

Teddy shakes his head to all of her questions. “Come on Lumia you’re going to make me late for work, go on back home before your dad wakes up and starts panicking when he finds you missing.”

Lumia doesn’t seem interested in doing that. “Ok fine... I’ll go back home, but only if you tell me if she’s pretty or not!”

Teddy laughs at the question. “Yeah alright she’s pretty.”

Lumia seems pleased to hear this information. “I knew she was pretty! All the pretty celebrities need bodyguards all the time!”

Teddy lifts his hand pointing down the hall. “Now go home before you get into trouble.”

Lumia nods her head as she does as she is told, starting to make her way back to her apartment. “Ok Mr. Conner! I hope you have a good day!” She begins to make her way up the stairs, stopping halfway up them for a moment as she kneels down and starts digging through her pockets, her innocent and oblivious act done at that.

The computer on her arm speaks up. “-You know Mr. Conner could get in big trouble if anyone finds out about this-”

Lumia takes a cell phone from her pocket. “He’ll be fine, even if someone does find out he’s completely oblivious. How much trouble could he get in if he doesn’t even know what’s going on?” She begins to press buttons on the phone she is holding, the sound of Teddy starting his car and heading if to work now coming from its speakers. “Perfect!”

“-You are crossing a lot of personal boundaries by doing this you know, you can’t just invade someone’s privacy and listen to everything they do-”

Lumia frowns at the voice, getting annoyed with the nagging. “Oh stop your whining! This is important.”

*******

Yula opens his eyes when he hears the alarm signalling for him to wake up and begin his day as scheduled, the black wolf pushing himself out of bed, stretching his body and yawning before looking around his room, it looking exactly the same as the one he had been placed in when in the other facility.

He gets up walking to the door of his room looking out of it, there on a chair outside his room sat a grey female wolf that held a lot of resemblance to his previous guard Teddy. Yula speaks up, greeting her in a pleasant tone. “Good morning Miss. Conner!”

Dolly Conner looks up from the book she had been reading, glancing back at Yula. “Good morning.” She then turns back to her book continuing to read it.

Yula lets out a sad sigh at this action, this was the same reaction she had greeted him with the day before. Yula having hoped that Teddy’s sister would be a casual conversationalist like Teddy had been.

Yula takes a deep breath not willing to give up yet, perhaps Dolly was shy, he just needed to figure out a way to break the ice. He turns back to her looking her over for a moment, spotting a matching bracelet and necklace made of wooden beads around her wrist and neck. “I like your jewellery, is that what’s in fashion now-a-days? I saw a girl once that had similar stuff on her… though… that was in a dream, so maybe that doesn’t count.”

Dolly doesn’t look up from her book as she explains. “It’s far from fashionable, at least in this city. Nor are they considered a fashion statement where they originate, they are spiritual charms meant to show respect to my spirit guide.”

Yula seems interested, not knowing much about that. “Really? Teddy doesn’t have stuff like that.”

Dolly nods her head well aware of that. “Of course not, Teddy does not believe in the spirit guides, he also finds wearing such things embarrassing. Though he’s not afraid to admit that he comes from wild decent he certainly is afraid to show it. He has no pride in his culture what so ever.”

The air once again falls silent, that topic of conversation ending at that. Yula frowning as he tries to think something else up, he looking back to the gray wolf. “You know you’re really pretty!”

Dolly frowns as she turns a page in her book continuing to half ignore him. “Keep it to yourself.”

Yula lets out another sigh, getting to know his new guard was not going to be easy, even if she was related to his previous one.

*******

Teddy looks back towards the cell that right now holds Iuana, the white wolf pacing around her confinements searching for a way that she could possibly get out. She glances over at Teddy for a moment when she realizes that he is looking her way, Iuana ignoring him and continuing to inspect her cell.

Zack grins as he looks over to Teddy, he also catches onto the fact that he was watching her. “It’s too bad she’s a wild, she’s a pretty little thing isn’t she?”

Teddy looks away from Iuana back to Zack. “Stop talking like being a wild is one of the worst things on earth.”

Zack crosses his arms. “Alright so you disagree with my point of view on wilds, but you don’t deny that you think she’s nice to look at.”

Teddy looks away from him not granting him a response, Zack continuing to speak. “You know white is a very pretty colour, you don’t find many gals sporting that, especially a pure white coat like hers. It’s also pretty popular with the guys, because when you do find a girl with a coat like that they’re already taken. I bet you she’s the same, some wild back where she lives is probably pretty upset to have her gone.”

Teddy shakes his head no, he certain that not the case. “She’s not taken, she doesn’t have the tattoo.”

Zack seems confused. “Tattoo?”

Teddy looks back to her. “You keep saying it don’t you? She’s a wild, if she was married or betrothed she would have a tattoo on her shoulder that symbolizes that. My parents both have the tattoo and they insist that me and my sister get them as well when we get married.”

Zack laughs at the information. “A tattoo on your arm? It’s going to be pretty hard to hide that now isn’t it! You’ll be wearing long sleeved shirts for the rest of your life! That’s going to be pretty funny you know that right?”

Teddy lets out a heavy sigh. “Yeah… ha, ha… real funny…”

Zack pats Teddy on the back. “Although I guess that’s good for you! No worries about some wild going after you if he were to find out how much you like looking at her!”

Zack continues to chuckle to himself, that stopping when a voice over his radio catches his attention. “Magellan, you are needed in the General’s office ASAP”

Zack lets out a groan, as he responds to the radio. “Again? Come on Loui don’t you trust me out of your sight for a few hours.”

Teddy looks over to Zack, though he knew Louis to be General Mort’s first name is had never heard anyone call him by it or any variation of it before. “You’re on a first name bases with General Mort?”

Zack frowns as he looks back to Teddy. “Don’t think too much into it, it’s really nothing.”

He looks back to the soldier that had brought General Mort’s order to his attention. “Right then, let’s get this over with. I’m on my way there now.” He looks back to Teddy pointing his hand at him like a gun. “Don’t you go getting any ideas while I’m away lover boy.”

Teddy frowns at the comment, not saying anything back in hopes due to not getting a reaction that the topic would be dropped and never come up again.

Iuana watches Zack leave, she then looking over to Teddy once he has left. “Why would you want to hide your tattoo if you had one? You don’t seem the type that would run around on your wife.”

Teddy quickly looks back to her trying to clear up the situation. “No, no, no! It’s nothing like that. It’s just embarrassing that’s all.”

Iuana places her hand on her hip, she not seeing it. “How is it embarrassing?”

Teddy continues to try and explain. “Hey I’m not saying it’s bad for you or any of your people. For wilds it’s perfectly fine… it just that for domestics it’s pretty weird. It takes a lot for a guy like me with the bloodline of wilds to fit in as it is, something like that would just make it even harder.”

Iuana stares at him, not understanding him. “If you are uncomfortable living as what you were born to be than why do you continue to stay with the domestics? To live a life hiding who you are because you will be hated, or to be embarrassed by your own blood… it does not sound like you live a very happy life.”

Teddy turns away from her, she’s actually right for the most part. “Most wilds that live with the domestics don’t.”

Iuana looks down toward her feet, that rather upsetting. “The wilds that follow the rules of the domestics… are still treated like outcasts…? Even though they have sided with the domestics to leave peacefully and not start conflict…”

She closes her eyes shaking her head. “That is terrible.”

A security officer approaches Iuana’s cell, a confused look filling his face when he sees that only one of her guards is present. “Where’s Magellan?”

Teddy looks over to his fellow security officer as he explains. “He was called to General Mort’s office.”

The security officer nods his head, Magellan often being called there. “Alright then, when he gets back I need you two to escort subject #2800356 to room three thirteen.”

Teddy nods his head. “Understood.”

Iuana lets out a growl as she yells over at the man that had just finished speaking to Teddy. “Asking me questions again then? Don’t expect anything different from what I told you the last time you put me in that room!”