Needless to say, Stella's bath was not the long relaxing soak she needed to calm her mind and body after a day of difficult document filing and stressful bureaucratic sessions that only made the current state of alarm more concerning.
No, the bath was far from relaxing, but it did make her worries seem to vanish, only to replace them with the fear of an exceptionally sharp, curved claw snagging piercings she had yet to fully enjoy having.
If Zeph had a chance to read the care guide Lilly placed on his nightstand or dive deeper into what little information the Nuro Net held on vlasordon care and personality traits, he would have understood that a juvenile such as Rex had likely received some degree of training or at least picking up some word associations.
