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Emma grabbed her pita order and waited for Zoe to get hers before finding somewhere to sit and eat their lunch. Emma also grabbed an order of fries from a nearby stand as well. She then returned to the table that Zoe had picked. Emma nodded and said to Zoe in a hushed voice, "Well, I hope that they catch it soon."

Emma thought about other animals to see as well since the wolves were already a must see. Emma decided she would go look at the birds, see Zoe's little zebra with a humour, and then go loo at a map to find what else she could see. Emma laughed at Zoe's joke about the little 3 year old zebra. "Maybe you could point out the little one when we go back to your enclosure. Though I do kind of wonder what kind of humour a zebra would have.", Emma said.

Emma ate on her pita some and offered to share her order of fries with Zoe. Emma smiled and excitedly said, "I would love to come over and look through recipes with you. Maybe we could find one to try for dinner or something. What's your favorite recipe that you have?"

Emma then asked, "So what else do you like to do besides cooking, Zoe?" Then Emma had a great idea, "Ya know it would be really cool if we could get friends together and play some board games and have a party or something if that sounds like something you might like and isn't a totally lame idea."

Emma listened intently as Erik told her about his unofficial (Emma took this to be a nice way of saying illegal) fights and how they were quick and brutal. Emma nodded saying, "Yeah, I've been lucky, but at least you know how to react when it's a real life fight. I'd have all the knowledge, but would probably freeze up and not know what to do." Then Erik talked about being trained when he was younger and fighting being a means of survival. "Wow, I didn't find out that I was a mutant until pretty recently. And then it was quite weird. I'm sorry you've had such a rough time and haven't been treated fairly. I hope that you have better experiences here. And I would love for you to teach me how to really fight and spar with you. That would be great.", Emma said and ended with a big smile.

Emma walked a couple steps as the line got shorter and got closer to their turn. She listened and nodded as Erik talked about his family and raising younger cousins. He sounded like the perfect man. And the way he talked about his mother was sweet and showed that he really respected women. How in the world did this guy not have a lady already? Emma knew he was young, but a guy like him she thought would have been eagerly snatched up by someone.

She laughed at his joke about having cooties and shook her head saying, "No, I don't have cooties. I don't know why people don't wanna stat around for long. For a while, it was because we moved around alot after she left my dad. We were always scared he'd come find us so we never stayed anywhere for very long." Then Erik talked about the reason why he didn't bring a girl around and she understood the severity of the kind of illegal things he had dealt with. But he was here now and hopefully being in a different country would be enough for him to start anew. Emma said to him in a hopeful tone, "Well, you're in a different country now and that should warrant an ability to safely date someone now, shouldn't it? I mean, those people aren't likely to try and follow you over here now, are they? Besides, you could probably protect your date if someone were to pull something crazy."

Then they started talking about smart phones. Erik talked about not knowing what to kind of phone to get and even was paranoid of the government tracking them. Emma chuckled and said, "Well if they are tracking us through our phones, then that's a hell of a lot of people to try and keep track of cuz almost everyone has a smartphone now. Also, I'm sure that's not the only way the government tracks people now a days. I think the only way for a person to escape being on the government's grid is to become totally Amish and have no interaction with electronics at all. But I'll definitely help you find something simple and easy to use without being overly expensive. We can even look into prepaid smart phones if you are that paranoid." Emma did notice the flush of color fill his face when he turned around earlier at the mention of dating. "If you'd like, we could go out to the bar or a club sometime and I could help you find dates if there's someone you seem to fancy. If you'd like for me to, anyway.", Emma offered.

Emma then took his bag and held it for him as he went to go change into his newly bought clothes. Emma glanced over at the guy who seemed to be watching them while they were in the store. He hadn't been exactly subtly about it. Emma had tried to ignore him the whole while they had been shopping. Emma stayed up around the register area with his bag and waited. Now she had to figure out what they were going to do next. Or would he want to go phone shopping this soon? She'd ask him his thoughts on the matter when he got back.

Emma could see that Zoe was surprised that Emma could tell something was off at the zoo. She had been to other zoos before and usually the environments were about the same. Emma had just never visited this particular one before and the envirinment seemed much more tense today.

Zoe didn't say what animal had gotten loose, just that they had been looking for 3 hours. "Well hopefully, they will find it soon. Maybe it won't attack anybody and will just find some nice spot to nap in. Though, I really hope it's not a reptile. I'm not too fond of those.", Emma said.

Then Zoe told her about the wolves and polar bears and Emma said excitedly, "How did I forget to see those? I love wolves. They are so beautiful. And the polar bears are really neat too. What's your favorite exhibit, other than the zebras? I know you must be pretty partial to them, considering you work with them so much. Do you have a favorite zebra in your enclosure?"

Emma followed Zoe over to the food pavillion and was looking at all the different vendors around. It smelled so good. Emma could probably live in the food pavillion and be completely happy. There was so much to choose from. Zoe suggested pitas and Emma agreed happily, "Pitas sound great. Plus, they smell amazing. And I'm glad you really liked the sauce. We'll have to swap some more recipes. I'm sure there are some that you have that I'd love to try."

Emma waved as she saw Zoe heading over. The zoo care takers did seem to be a bit on edge. It seemed like some were trying to keep their cool, but were failing to do so. Every now and then you would see one take off fairly quickly and some looking around in places pretty hard. So Emma assumed that an animal must have gotten loose. It was only thing she could think of to explain the care takers behavior.

When Zoe asked if Emma was ready for lunch, Emma nodded and said, "Sure where did ya wanna eat today? I'm starving. So anywhere is fine with me. I hope your day has been going well. So what kind of animal got loose? Everyone seems so on edge. Hopefully not a snake or reptile. Only thing worse than those would be a monkey of some kind. Those would be the hardest to catch, I think. "

Emma walked along the path with Zoe and told her about getting to walk around and see some of the exhibits. She told her which ones she visited and then asked, "Which ones should I see when we come back from lunch?"

Slowly, it seemed like Emma was actually making some friends. This reminded Emma that she had given Zoe her Mom's tomato sauce recipe. She always meant to ask about that when they talked, but always seemed to forget. "So have you gotten to try your hand at my Mom's tomato sauce? What did ya think about it?", Emma asked, excitedly.

Emma watched as Agnes eyed her. She could tell that Agnes was very interested, very predator like. Emma wasn't used to being preyed on by other women. Usually, it was her who did all the flirting and first moves, but if Emma were to be honest, she really enjoyed being stalked like this. If Agnes was like this in other ways, well let's just say that Emma hoped for the up close and personal to travel much further than just the ring.

Emma returned the flirty eyes back at Agnes, watching as she took a step toward Emma. Emma's hand tingled, but was relieved by their handshake. The handshake was firm yet tender and Agnes's hand was so soft. The trail of her fingers in Emma's hand and biting her lip started to make Emma tingle and warm as her thoughts of Agnes wandered to more private affairs.

The way Agnes described Krav Maga was tantilizing and sexy. It made Emma want to be in the ring with her even more. Bodies close as Agnes showed her moves. Agnes would probably be able to hear how hard Emma's heart was beating while being in such close contact. On the one hand, it was scary; the thought of being in the ring with someone so skilled and versatile. But it was also exciting. Emma could learn more and do more.

Agnes's eyes and smile were absolutely beautiful. Emma couldn't take her eyes off of Agnes. And then as Agnes started talking and describing Krav Maga, it only made Emma wanna learn more. "Of course you have to keep yourself safe. Krav Maga definitely sounds like something I would love for you to show me. I need to learn more than just kickboxing. So please teach me all that you know."

Emma took a few steps toward Agnes, getting really close to her. Emma leaned slightly to speak into Agnes's ear. Emma teased, softly and sexily, "I would love to take my chances with you. And I wouldn't take advantage of you, unless you asked me to. Though if you do knock me out, please let yours be the face I see when I wake up."

This was so much easier to understand when Cal spoke it. I had a hard time reading it and couldn't figure out why. But after hearing Cal speak, I understood. I can't read an Irish accent.

"I just mean that seeing it all in action was pretty crazy and I was trying to be funny. It probably was certainly not fun getting knocked into the fountain and getting soaking wet. Though I do have to say, seeing the dog catching the frisbee as you were cartwheeling was pretty funny.", Emma explained.

As he explained the rather normal explanation of the things he did at night during normal sleeping hours, Emma realized that she had asked a rather dumb question and should have figured that he did what normal people did to pass the time. What other answer was she expecting from that question? Well, at least she had found out some things that they had in common. She also liked to read and workout, but he could probably tell some of that from the rolled yoga mat she was carrying and the book she had been reading earlier. "So what kind of books do you like to read and what kinda work outs do you do? When you caught me earlier, I had finished my daily run and yoga in the park. I just find it so much nicer exercising some there than trying to run on a treadmill at the gym. But I like to hit the punching bags a good bit at the gym and strength train too."

Emma then took note that he didn't seem to want to share about his mutation, so she left it alone and figured he would either tell her or show her later. She didn't wanna press the matter and push her new friend away. Then he was curious about why she didn't have a lot of people to talk to. Emma laughed a little and said, "Well, my Mom lives with me so I talk to her often when I'm at home. My Dad is an asshole and I'd rather not talk to him ever again. I don't have a boyfriend, but I do have a girl that I really like and talk to and think about often. Though I like both sexes, so it's not like asking about a boyfriend would be totally wrong. And maybe you could call them considering that you don't really sleep. That way you could stay connected to some people from home."

Emma then grabbed her phone from her bag when they were in line to pay for his clothes and shoes. She quickly started to input his name into a new contact listing on her smartphone when she looked up and was about to give him her number. When she noticed that Erik didn't have a smart phone like most young people today. He had an old school flip phone. She hadn't seen anyone have one of those since she was just barely a teenager, which had been quite a while considering she was 30 now. "I don't think I've seen someone as young as you carrying around a dinosaur phone like that. Normally, the only people who even carry phones like that anymore are really, really old grandparents. Like in their 80's kind of grandparents. You've never had a smartphone before?", Emma asked, slightly confused.