Toxic ran back into the Captain's office,where Dokka exclaimed,"I said APPROPRIATE wear! How does a skin-tight bunny shirt fit that definition?" She wrinkled her nose,"If it's not good enough, I'll take it off!" She moved to strip, and Dokka exclaimed,"STOP! It's better than you walking around NAKED again!" Obett sighed,"That's a matter of opinion." Dokka said,"Not for you. Her father is the eight foot tall man with hands big enough to grab your entire HEAD.that you met earlier-- you do not want to provoke him! Besides this one has a boy-friend! Right?" Toxic nodded her head and asked,"Did he ask about me? Was he worried about me?" DOkka laughed,"Yes he did, and very worried! He's patrolling the perimeter outside the ship right now because we're on heightened alert because we're--" "Aware that the mean old Erhlutians guys are trying to sneak onboard and do something evil to us or the ship and they don't have any good sense?" Toxic finished in a rush with an intense expression. He blinked with a surprised look. He sighed. "I should be used to this by now. How did you find out?" Lime explained about running into an Asuran who's mind she read and someone who claimed to be working for the Erhlutians, who's mind she couldn't read. At that point, her professional mien flew out the window as her adopted mother came into the room and said,"I came here as fast as I heard the page for me--LIME!" Rose swept her daughter up in her arms, and tried not to cry. Lime exclaimed,"MOMMY!" and wept. She explained how frightened she was on blind on Earth and how Mi'I and Toxic and Narchi took care of her, and Neon was like a sister to her. Rose just held her and let her mouth run out. Mi'I sighed wistfully,"I wish I had someone. Family or someone to hold onto." Obett said,"You got me. I mean you could have me, if you wanted to hold onto someone. I mean I wouldn't object. I mean GREEN IS my favorite color, and Lime is too young for me, but you aren't!" Mi'i turned to him and looked with a blankly amused face. Rose looked at him and said,"You need to work on your delivery of 'Pick-Up' lines." He waved his hand in irritation and exclaimed,"HEY! I wasn't trying to 'PICK HER UP'! I don't have any family EITHER and I was trying to let her know she wasn't the only one who felt that way!" Dokka said,"Lad,simplest is always best. Just speak from the heart simple and straight-forward and things take care of themselves." Toxic exclaimed,"I'm simple!" Dokka, Rose and Lime guffawed. Dokka choked out,"NO ONE who knows you believes THAT for an instant! You are the most cunning person I know and your act of innocent simplicity is all encompassing and completely believable! Except to those who see through your charade!" Toxic beamed out a simple-minded seeming grin and exclaimed,"I aim to please! Huhr-hurh-hurh! How long have you known?" Dokka and Rose both laughed. He said,"For a LONG time. Jin clued me in. You genes' family tree doesn't have any stupid branches on it! I doubt you would be the first. Your camouflage might be just what we need here and now! The Erlutians have a 'People Copying Machine' and we fear that four of the crew might have been copied, so they could grab the originals, including Sunny and Snowflake." Toxic darkened at that."If they hurt Sunny or Snowy,I'll have to kill them ALL. I warned that woman with orange eyes!" Rose exclaimed,"ORANGE EYES?" She put Lime down."Din't all of the four involved in the incident comment on that? A woman with orange eyes and orange hair that practically glowed?" Toxic said,"Her name was Afora, the Klopt." Obett exclaimed,"KLOPT? Those guys are dangerous! A species of hermaphrodites with high technology and few compunctions about using it! The Erhlutians use them as assassins sometimes. Just like Ngoran-Gorans when they 'don't want to dirty their hands'!" Rose asked,"What did they DO to our people?" --to be continued!--