"Because the majority of the eating world isn't made of hungry catgirls? Although you might be able to get them to catch on in France... they eat snails there, for God's sake."

Daria washed the dishes and dried them, helping Sarah to put away the left overs after offering anyone else who wanted more.

"Snails? Ew...who would want to eat a snail?"

Sarah began to laugh.

"What?" Daria asked innocently.

"Umm...contrary to popular belief not all of us like to eat a mouse no matter how it's prepared Mike." Nika gave a sickening look. "I like my burgers and pizza and other normal foods."

Nika finished her meal and took her bowl to the sink and started to wash it. "Thank you for the macaroni and cheese Daria," she said with a big smile and a satisfied look.

Emerald rolled over in her slumber again, mumbling inchoherent words once again.

"Goooba..snarf." Emerald muttered

Daria grinned. "I've never actually eaten a mouse....a pigeon once...yes." she laughed.

"Hey, Sarah made the mac and cheese not me." She said pointing to Mike's siser who was clearing the table now.

"You're welcome Nika. Any friend of Dar's is a Friend of mine!" Sarah piped.

Daria's mind began to wander along the lines of how different her and Nika's mutations were. Was Daria closer to being a cat than the other girl? What determined their traits in the first place?

Again Nika squished her nose in a disgusted look after hearing Daria admit to eaating a pigeon. "Yeah, no thanks to birds unless their chicken or turkey." She looked at Daria somewhat blushing as she was hoping she didn't offend the other cat girl.

"Oh, well, thank you then Sarah. It was very good. My tummy thanks you too," she said smiling to Sarah.

Then Emmy spoke again and Nika's twitched in her direction. "A goooba snarf? Is she dreaming in cartoon land?" Nika giggled at the thought.

Looking back to Daria she noticed Daria looking with curiousity at the new girl. "Is something on your mind Daria? You look like you wanna ask me something."

"Hey, quit it... the mind reading is MY little niche," Mike put in with a smirk to Nika.

"Maybe, babe... or maybe she's just in denial? Who knows. Who cares. Have some macaroni."

Nika looked back to Mike. "Sorry I wasn't reading her mind. I can't do that anyways." The young girl grabbed her tail and played with it's tip nervously.

Daria laughed heartily. "Don't mind him, Nika h'es only pulling your ...tail." she grinned. "Mike is the resident psychic, but he's not psycho."

She pretended to think for a moment. "Well...maybe he's a bit of both." She smiled. "I didn't necessarily want to ask you, Nika, I wanted to know in general about the differences in our mutations. I get a little more cat like as time passes, you seem to be human for the most part. I suppose after you get a physical from the Doc Professor I can ask him..when he and I are on better terms." she mumbled the last part.

"And for the record I was pretty grossed out with myself over the pigeon thing too but at the time I had no choice.."

Tricity hurried down the stairs, rushing passed some children and sliding on the linoleum of the kitchen. She caught herself on the island and her heart skipped a beat. "Oh my God..." She felt tears well up in her eyes and put a hand on her chest. Without much thought to the man's well-being, Tricity threw her arms around Mike's shoulders and gave him a hug. "I'm sorry, I've been sleeping and the Doc just told me when I went upstairs to the infirmary. How are you feeling?! What happened??"

Mike laughed, hugging her back... she couldn't really hurt him, his mind was as sharp as ever, and anything that might knock him over or hurt him he could just deflect with his telekinesis. "Well, I got really tired and decided to take a nap... then when I woke up, I was here at the mansion and they told me I'd been sleeping a long time. I mean... geez, where does the time go?" he answered, winking over her shoulder at Daria.

He got a little more serious after that, though. "Although I hear that I've missed something important?..."

Daria grinned. "Sorry Tricity, I couldn't help it, I was so excited I had to tell him." she giggled and dried her hands on a dish towel, coming to sit beside them.

"I'm sure there is much more to tell though." she laughed.

"Well, I'd be happy to asnwer any questions you have Daria. I don't mind if you ask me stuff." Just then Tricity burst into the kitchen and Nika looked at her in shock.

Mike glanced down at a buzzing on his belt, an saw his comm going off. Glancing at it, he saw a fairly annoyed message from the infirmary. "Well, doesn't that figure. The Doc figures I've been out long enough and wants me back up there. Do I still have a sexy motor for my wheelchair?" he teased, glancing back over at Daria.

Emerald woked up from her slumber, looking around curiously. She mumbled words of inchoerent farwell to the people in the room. She headed off to her room, not to emerge untill race day.

((Everyone is invited to the racetrack to watch em race, she gave passes to her close friends so they can see her in the trailer. Or anyone could sneak back there as long as they come with a reason of doing so.))