Inquiries [Katherine/Talia]

“What is it with humans and asking a lot of questions?” The rabbit’s blunt inquiry embarrassed the female a bit as she gently patted the rabbits head as if to silently remind her to behave. “Be patient Tohru!” The rabbit had boatloads of sass, spunk and energy but as far as tolerance went the no nonsense leporidae was lacking. “Meh, you’re all the same too nosy for your own good, don’t you know not minding your own business can get you into trouble?” Precious bun, so practical yet so socially handicapped at times. “But that’s a super boring way to have fun if you don’t poke your nose around.” Except in the neighbors garden, he’d learned that the hard way, but hey how was he supposed to look for treasure like those people in the tv shows did if he didn’t dig?! “TCH, you can’t always just care about fun and games, Simba.” Nonsense! Simba thought as he rolled around on his back playfully akin to that of a labrador. Like that one song said, life was just a bowl of cherries! “And you can’t always take things too seriously, Tohru.”

Welp, was Katherine ready to run away screaming yet? “They’re all a little bit different to a degree but they all hail from the same realm so basically, yes.” She’d answered the first question for the two since they seemed to be preoccupied with their banter. “Guys, how about you save your argument later for who gets the last instant ramen bowl and respond to our new friend?” The term instant ramen bowl made the both of them turn their heads and shift their attention to the newer, their curiosity quickly focusing from high sodium food to the new human. “Errrr, I eat most things, but I am particularly fond of meat, and dislike cauliflower because it resembles a human brain too much for my liking.” Simba wrinkled his face. “Yuck, brain! I like meat too, and Subway sandwiches, and also Talia’s pork cutlets!”

The question regarding age made Talia herself ponder just how old these two were, it defnitely seemed that Simba was younger, but they were twins born from the same egg? “Technically digimon do not age, but all the both of us remember right now is that we were born in a nursery in the digital world and brought here under mysterious circumstances.” Talia petted the both of them on the head, smiling. “At the moment, I’m sort of trying to help them remember their past.” Okay, the girl was starting to get what Tohru meant by too many questions as her head seemed to spin with each passing phrase from Katherine. “That I’m not sure of unfortunately, these two kinda found me, but I’m sure it could be helpful.”

Note that the computer programmer was completely winging this - for all she knew that information could be completely incorrect. “I’ve never been, but I’ve heard the location is through a river here in the city?” Come to think of it, K could probably be really helpful in this situation but was Katherine really ready to meet an 8 ft something fox lady with swords if the twins freaked her out this much? “Definitely! Either here or there, in my experience though they sort of find their own way to you. Actually I’ve got a friend who might know more about this than me, but uh she’s kind of also a digimon, a tall one, but don’t be fooled, she’s just as furry and cuddly as these two.” 

Upon Katherine’s revelation, Tohru was the first one to speak up. “Kid, are you crazy? You just can’t go into some strange world you hardly know anything about by yourself, that’s just asking for trouble.” What if they didn’t like humans there? For whatever reason Talia had the image of it being oddly similar to Jurassic Park’s Isla Nublar but it skipped right to the part where the power went out and all the dinosaurs were loose. K had mentioned a few things about the digital world but whether it was benevolent or malevolent was still a subject she was in the dark about. And as Tohru ranted and raved about all the horrors of going places alone like some character from a 1990s Stranger Danger PSA the blonde finally shushed her down with a wave of a hand. “Enough. It’s not our business Tohru. Your call I guess. Hope you got strong legs for running.” Talia wasn’t this girls mom or big sister so whether she made reckless decisions was all up to her as far as she was concerned.

Indeed, what she was doing was completely idiotic and yet...admiringly brave at the same time? “Kudos to you I guess for following your instinct though, it’s a good trait to have, one I wish I saw more in people.” It seemed like the general populace hardly ever followed what they truly wanted to do, always conforming to performing what was practical, which made sense of course since everyone wanted a stable home, income, health insurance, etc, but few were fortunate enough to make said income doing something enjoyable just like her. “Computer science is kind of dominated by boys who are insecure from being shoved into trash cans in high school and they tend to treat the girls who choose to pursue the major like they can’t do anything because of their gender, but I never let something that backwards stop me from being successful. I hope you do the same, kid.”

Ugh, and now she had to send a letter to her mom? “She’s not going to think it’s fake and that I kidnapped you right? I’d rather not have the police bust down my door, never been arrested and plan to keep it that way.” Or have Bad Request be exposed and shut down - hackers weren’t friends with the police unfortunately, you’d think they would be though since they could track down pedophiles, cybercriminals, online predators, etc - perps who worked on the internet. Heck, she herself busted identity thieves for security firms all the time, thieves of whom were mostly losers too lazy to work for a living and instead of using their skills purposefully they just hacked into people’s bank accounts all day long from their mothers basements. “But, you got it I guess. Any idea when you’re coming back? You need me to make you a fake plane ticket or something? It’s kinda along the lines of my skills, hehe.”