A Need for Rest (Open)

    "It's fine, she quickly responded to Kami's request to forgive his friend. After all, she wasn't mad. She wouldn't deny that she'd have been curious too. Maybe, Megan thought this was the best way to subtly bring up the subject? In this situation, she wasn't entirely sure how she would have handled it if the tables were turned. One could never really be too safe, considering the subject.

    Eyes slowly shifted to her purse, again, debating on what she wanted to say. Reaching beside it, she grabbed her drink and put the cup to her lips. For a moment, she seemed to just consider how to respond. After all, they weren't really being intimidating about it. Heck, the offer was even there to just not answer. But, she also didn't really want to offend them. If everything went well with her response, then she'd still have potential to have a couple extra friends. If not? Well... Maia wasn't entirely sure what would happen.

    Finally, she placed the cup back on the table, before lifting her hands up to sign, "it may have some meaning. It's weird being the one asked about it, though." After all, most of her encounters involved her knowing the other person's stance on it, first. "Mind if I ask how you would know about them?"

    As Maia was about to respond to Megan, Kami had made a decision to stop all of this silliness. Eyes lowered, briefly, debating on if she was just going to end up walking into a trap with all of this. It was possible. Considering that she really wanted to like the two, she would give them the benefit of the doubt. Picking up her coffee again, she lightly pulled on her purse's strap before actually lifting it, giving the creature inside a warning that there would be some movement. It was only polite.

    Now, hopefully, Kuu wasn't actually sleeping, because being moved around would surely jostle him out of his dreams.

    "Sorry," she apologized, for what felt like too many times for their conversation. This time, it was for a lot of things. Like being dodgy about the subject that was brought up, despite the low chance of anyone else being able to eavesdrop. Or for potentially upsetting Kami. After all, neither of the two seemed particularly unfriendly. With that, the tamer stood up and followed the boy. What was the worst that could really happen?

    Watching Kami's words, Maia established that this was someplace that he must have been to multiple times. Maybe, that wasn't a good sign. After all, going someplace that was unfamiliar to her and not anyone else only made it more possible to be a trap. But, she still clung to some hope that it wasn't one. She tried to throw glances around the empty store, while still reading the boy's signs. It didn't look like the room was overly used, so that was a good sign.

    An organization? Was that the group that Kai had mentioned? Ah, what was it? DATS? "Is that the group that covers up Digital Monster related incidents?" She didn't know a sign for 'Digimon', let alone one that would translate to the other two, so she simply used the lengthened version. Still, that would imply that she may have heard of their organization. Hopefully, they wouldn't assume she knew any more than what she had asked. It was literally the extent of her knowledge on it.

    Still, the boy was spot-on with the thought that she at least wanted to trust them. There was a sigh, as she crossed her arms. Kami said there were no cameras. She had to trust that. But, there was still some hesitation. Finally, she shifted to mess with her purse, murmuring a, "Kuu, are you awake?" Before reaching into the bag. With a small groan, a half asleep pipefox crawled halfway onto her hand, letting her pull him from the purse.

    Once outside of the purse, the Digimon sleepily blinked toward Megan, then at Kami, ears slowly twitching as he was processing the situation. Why was everyone so quiet? Did they do the hand-thing that Maia did, too? Regardless, the Rookie seemed too out of it to have many thoughts on the situation, as his tamer brought him up to plop onto her shoulder. Once there, he sniffed the air for a moment, before his eyes grew wide, "people!" he squeaked, looking between his tamer and the strangers. One of them had an odd scent, almost as if he rolled around with a Digimon, but the little fox was completely oblivious to what this meant. "Why are we in a creepy room? What's going on? Who're you?" Oh, Maia almost forgot. The Kudamon almost never shut up. Maybe she should have let him sleep.

    "This is K-U-U. Kuu," she signed, adding in a personal gesture for the Digimon. Sure, he couldn't sign because of his lack of proper fingers, but he was quick to catch on to the 'language,' so she was at least able to have a one-sided conversation with the monster. "He's my friend." The girl's eyes shifted, to look at Kuu, as he stared down at her hands, before looking at the strangers. "I hope you can understand why I was nervous answer your questions now."

((Nah, you're fine!))

    The little fox's ears twitched, tilting his head, "I like words," he stated in a very flat tone. With a few more minutes of waking up and hearing introductions, the Kudamon chirped a, "hi! I'm Kuu! But, Maia already told you! So I'm just repeating things!" Well, at least he knew that he was repetitive. And, overall, kind of annoying. But, it was alright. But, it also demonstrated that he could at least catch part of the conversation! The part about him!

    "Oh, yes," Maia confirmed, aloud. "He does this all day, every day."

    Glancing at his tamer, he shook his head, "no! I also eat stuff! I can't talk while I'm eating stuff!" Oh, but he tried, and that's what mattered. Talk about food going everywhere!

    But, when it came to the hologram dropping, Maia and Kuu both looked very alarmed to see a turtle-like Digimon in front of them! Maia at least tried to hide her surprise, in an attempt to be polite, but Kuu was busy staring with his jaw dropped. If he wasn't awake before, he sure was now! "I thought I sniffed something! How'd you do that? I want to look like a people?" And then, the fox went on a ramble about how amazing that would be.

    "I have to admit, I'm surprised," she signed to Kami. "But, it's nice to meet you, all the same."

    To that, the Kudamon nodded, cutting out from his ramble to blurt, "yes! Nice to meet you! Did you know that you're a turtle? Also, I don't need a translator," he added to the end, but lifted a paw, clumsily. "I do if he can't read my mouth, though. These paws cannot do the signs!"

    "I know," the fox chirped, reading Kami's signs. It was really weird having conversations with other people like this! He just thought Maia was weird! "I don't know polite, though!" At least he knew that! Or, was it actually that he didn't know what the word was? Ah, it was hard to tell with the Kudamon some days!

    It wasn't like teaching Kuu manners was working very well, anyway. Maia had already tried to explain this to him before, but it was to no use. It seemed the rookie was just dense as could be. At least he tried to be friendly about all of it! Though, it sure seemed like he found a way to offend just about everyone at some point in their conversations. Maybe this was why Maia was never keen on introducing him to people! That and, well, she really couldn't unless they knew about Digimon.

    Maia was trying not to eavesdrop too much on the explanation that was given to explain why they knew of this place. So Megan didn't know about it, either? That was a little relieving, at least. Wait! She was trying not to watch! Not that it was really a personal conversation.

    Kuu was first to jump on the 'question' time, with a, "do you like snacks? I like snacks. Can we get snacks?" Luckily, it seemed that his tamer had learned a strange mute button of-sorts on the fox, which was soon implemented. With a soft poke to the tip of his nose, the little alien stopped questioning everything and stuck out his tongue, making a "bluh," sound effect.

    "We don't actually have too many questions." Maia answered, properly. But, what kind of question would she even want to ask? She had essentially played fifty questions with Kai when she'd received Kuu. "How did you two meet? Do you mind if I ask that?"

    Oh, it was great that nobody continued to talk to the fox. Soon, he was busy trying to lick his own nose, and off into his own little world. Kuu really didn't come off as particularly bright, most of the time. The other times, though, had led his tamer to wonder how much he actually knew about the world. But, there was no way the rookie was smart! Except, he might actually be.

    "Sorry. I'm more interested in you two," Maia admitted, making an awkward smile. It could be pretty personal, thinking about it. But, aside from directly questioning about DATS, she couldn't think of any other questions to have!

    With the offer of an exchange of stories, Kuu began nodding rapidly, but was still busy seeing how much of his face he could reach with his tongue. At least he wasn't trying to lick anyone else. "Sounds fine to me," the tamer agreed. After all, she had nothing to hide about the Kudamon to other tamers. Right?