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[completelycrazy]

[Newt has definitely not been up all night building salamander-proof enclosures out of spare Null parts so the fact that he sounds both tired and revved up on way too much coffee is just your imagination.]

Two questions, Hadriel. One: Tell me about the cave monsters. What all has crashlanded here before I got here? Specifically, I'm looking for stuff that a person could feasibly, like, catch. Or at least put down and drag into town for some post-mortem studying. This includes stuff that might be a good food source, maybe? I don't know. Depends on what's out there.

[The food source thing is secondary in his mind, but the masses don't need to know that. He's already expecting to catch some flak for this.]

And two: Anyone got some time to help me wrangle some salamanders, at least? I'm thinkin' two should be good. I'd like to grab some other stuff too, but again, depends on what's out there. Gonna start with the salamanders for now.

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[completelycrazy]

[...Well, that certainly doesn't sound ideal, but it's not as if he hasn't put himself at risk for science before. Studying the effects from personal experience would be more than enlightening, too.

Problem is, he is allergic to bees and he's not sure if these otherworldly horror wasps would trigger that. But, uh, he's just gonna keep that detail to himself, since Abigail clearly has no faith in him already.]

Look, kid, I'm a biologist. I'm used to working in the field with stuff that could easily kill me. [That... is sort of untrue, but after having been stranded in the streets of Hong Kong with the common folk during a Kaiju double event while at least one of those Kaiju was actively hunting him, well. That's more than enough field experience to make this claim, he thinks.]

I understand the danger plenty, but do you understand the importance of this kind of research? You really think I want to risk so much just for fun? We know next to nothing about these wasps. I study them, and I find out behavior patterns, preferred habitats, ways to both provoke and prevent an attack, all kinds of stuff that would be, like, super useful for people to know around here. I could even figure out an antidote for the venom, or at the very least, remedies for the symptoms it causes. And that's just for the wasps! Imagine the kind of things I could learn from studying the common monsters around the city. If you're so concerned about the danger, you should understand why that knowledge is worth the risk.

[am_i_a_monster]

I'm used to living with what could easily kill me.

[She means who could easily kill her, but that's an unnecessary detail.]

Things are different here. We have choices and freedom here.

You don't have to be a biologist here, if you don't want to be. And if you do decide to do that type of work - an alive and functioning biologist has to be better than one that's hurt or dead, right?

[And there's the time and resources doctors would have to put into treating him. As well as the risk to others who'd have to rescue him.]

You should at least arm yourself first.

[completelycrazy]

As if I'm not? Where I come from, humanity's been on the precipice of extinction for years. I'm one of the few people standing between Earth and monsters capable of leveling entire cities in a matter of hours. If it wasn't for my work, my entire world would be dead by now.

[He is maybe just a little full of himself over this fact.]

So, obviously, I'm not stupid. If you have any information about the monsters in town that's actually useful, I'm all ears, but spare me the advice. Didn't ask for it, don't want it, don't need it. You're not telling me anything I don't already know, which is why I put up this post in the first place.

[Ugh. Despite Hadriel being the land of infinite time, he so does not have time for this. He hangs up unceremoniously. Sorry, Abigail. Manners are for chumps.]