Lucien will toast to that.

"I think a tiny bit of me wants there to exist at least a few samples left of each species afterwards, but not having any in the wild seems important."

"There's smallpox in research labs. I kind of don't like this but I can see the argument."

"I would rather not have any risk of smallpox getting out than keep it around - I'm not sure if other people are making reasonable tradeoffs about this."

"Yeah. So far, no smallpox leaks."

"That's good, I really hope it stays that way."

The entrées arrive. Haru has finished his artichoke but he's still hungry.

"You are welcome to have some of mine if you'd like."

"Same to you." Theft!

Lucien will steal a bit for himself, increasingly confused about how gender is supposed to work here but not unhappy about the situation.

"Do you think you'd like to try doing dungeons? My agent can set up some easy ones for a first run or two."

"Yeah that seems like it would be a good idea?"

"When I was starting I went with a much more experienced escort but I've been at it a few years and can probably just do that part myself."

"Yes I'd definitely like that."

"Anything you want to know before we schedule that? - is this an undatelike amount of shop talk -"

"I don't know what a datelike amount of shop talk is but I am always happy to discuss scheduling things. I think it might be good to verify I can my taps last for a decent amount of time to be at all useful?"

"Do I still have mine or did it go away when you pulled me through the table?"

"It went away when I pulled you."

"I guess that makes sense. I wanna write things down - test how long a tag lasts, check your range, bring you to a simple dungeon for field testing within and across the boundary..."

"Yeah I am also definitely interested in doing this."

"How much do you know about what an entry-level dungeon'll be like?"