Kamikaze sat in yet another large stainless steel room. As he sat in his chair with a large metal desk in front of him he began to get bored. Very bored. As he glanced over the two security cameras in the corners of the room and the heavy gauge door he lifted his shackles up onto the table and dropped them onto its polished metallic surface creating a loud clacking sound. He looked down at his shackles and began to slowly clack them to a musical tune only he could hear.

After a few minutes of taping out a beat the large door in front of him unlocked and swung open. A reptilian looking officer walked in with a data pad and sat down across from kamikaze and began to read the data pad. Kamikaze began to watch him intently while he tapped his shackles on the table. The guard looked up at kamikaze. Kamikaze looked at the tablet and bounced his eyebrows.

The guard laid the tablet on the table and shut it off. "There were a couple explosions on the lower levels. I was just reviewing the reports."

Kamikaze mouthed the word "Oooooh…"

The guard folded his arms and squinted his eyes at Kamikaze. "State your name."

Kamikaze leaned back in his chair pulling his shackles up to his chest and squinting back at the guard. The guard sighed, got up out of his chair walked over to the door. He knocked on it and then opened it. Kamikaze looked over at the door. The shadow of some smaller creature was cast onto the wall. He rolled his eyes as he saw a pair of green antenna drift along the edge of the table. Kamikaze leaned back in his chair again only this time with a look of disgust. The guard walked over and stood next to the chair that was now seating Shauni. "This is experiment 628. Ordinarily when an inmate doesn't respond…" He raised his hands and made quotation marks as he said the word "respond". "…we generally assign staff of the same species. She'll be giving the examination." Shauni slightly smiled across from the table. Kamikaze smacked his shackles against his forehead.

Shauni sat down and picked up the tablet. She turned it one a looked at it as she read off some questions. "What is your name?"

Kamikaze rolled his eyes. "Project Alpha…"

Shauni looked up from the tablet and looked him. Not any more… Kamikaze's antenna twitched above his head. He puffed a short breath out of his nose as he cracked a smile that quickly faded away. "How old are you?"

Kamimaze looked off to the side staring at the perfectly polished walls. "Twenty-sumthin."

The guard put his hands on the table and leaned all of his weight on them. "Answer the question!"

Kamikaze Growled and snarled at him. "I DON'T KNOW! I just remember being alive for 20 years! I'm probably older than that…"

Shauni looked over at the guard who had just taken his hands off the table and stepped back letting her do her job. "If you could do anything right now what would it be?"

Kamikaze tried to fold his arms but his shackles stopped him. He looked down at the ground. "Beat him over the head with your tablet, escape from this room, dive into a trash chute, gain access to the hanger using maintenance tunnels, and steal a cruiser." The guard quickly reached for his pistol holstered at his side. Kamikaze shook his head. "Put that thing away…"

Shauni looked over at the guard and waved her paw at him. She looked back at kamikaze. "Have you ever had a girlfriend or someone you loved?"

Kamikaze looked up and stared at her like she had just said the most foul and offensive thing in the universe. "That's not a question! You're just making that one up!" Shauni held the tablet up and showed him the list of questions. Its was on the list. Kamikaze narrowed his eyes and scowled at her. You already know the answer to that question Shauni…"yeah…" Shauni popped her eyes open as she heard his voice in her head. Don't react to it. Ya want the guard to know we can communicate using frequency modulation?

Shauni paused for a moment and then quickly looked over at the guard and then back at her tablet. She entered in the answers to the questions she had asked.

Not panicking is the first step to pulling off deception…

Shauni took a deep breath and exhaled. So he can read my thoughts? She looked up into kamikaze's eyes. He didn't respond. He just looked back at her. I wonder what else he's heard me think.

Only things you've thought when you're close to me… it's mostly been lame girly stuff… Cuddling and licking…

Shauni's back stiffened and she brought the tablet up in front of her face trying to hide her embracement. She could feel her body temperature rise and her face begin to blush. Her fur managed to hide it from the guard but she knew Kamikaze didn't need his eyes to know what she felt.

Ask the next question…

Shauni's eyes focused on the words on the tablet. "Wha…" Shauni heard her voice crack. She cleared her throat and started again. "What are some things you like to do?"

Kamikaze slouched in his chair and closed his eyes. "get adrenaline rushes, eat chocolate, shoot things, make things, blow stuff up…" Kamikaze nodded his head slowly to a silent rhythm. "…music… I love music…"

Shauni wrote down his response and looked up at the guard. "Ok! I'm done…" she hopped down off of the chair and pulled the tablet to her chest trying to ease her feeling of exposure. She scurried out the heavy gauge door and leaned her back against the wall as it closed behind her.

She took a long Deep breath and exhaled. She thought about all the times she had thought of being close to kamikaze when he was around and how embarrassed she was, but then she remembered how he acted. He was calm, a little on edge but calm. He wasn't bothered by what she was thinking. Shauni opened her eyes and stared off into space realizing something. Maybe he doesn't hate me…

The heavy gage door opened again and two guards walked in. as they walked out they dragged kamikaze by his arms down the hallway. As they turned away from Shauni kamikaze lifted his head up and looked at her. Se ya around… 628…