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Ash looked flustered, and then glanced at Lunet.

"Ah, you're welcome." he said.

"What do you want to drink?" he asked.

"We got white milk, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, 6 different juices, water, infused and non, a few different pops..." he listed off.

"Got a preference?"

"Well, thankfully, the jalapeno poppers have very little kick." Ash responded. "They've been properly de-seeded and such. They're more about the flavour than spice." he told her.

"You're welcome to try one, as well as a spinach puff, and everything else I've made." he offered.

"You're a guest in this house, after all." he reasoned.

"...and you love having new people to cook for." Lindsay mumbled.

"Pfeh!" Ash shushed his brother loudly.

Ash rolled his eyes.

"Lindsay said he wanted spice, so I got him spice." he said.

"Oh?" Lindsay asked, joining the crew.

"Yeah, I made a special batch that I put Bhut Jolokia peppers in. Just for you." Ash responded.

"Oooooh, Ghost Peppers!?" Lindsay responded excitedly.

"...and relax, I was VERY careful to make sure those TNT packets didn't touch the jalapeno ones." Ash then told Rowena. "Also, Lindsay's are... well, they're labeled with a red splotch of food dye on the batter." he added. "They're in a separate basket altogether as well."

Ash laughed with Rowena, before looking at Lunet when she posed her inquiry.

"Eh?" he muttered.

"You don't know?" he asked her.

"They're little peppers. Like smaller green peppers or bell peppers or whatever. But they have a higher spice level." he explained.

"I cut them into chunks, surround them with cheese, batter them and fry them up in oil." he continued.

"They're called 'poppers' because they 'pop' with flavour and spice when you bite into them."

"Hm?" Ash mumbled.

"Oh!" he said.

"Well, I made up some jalapeno poppers, some spinach puffs, and a big plate of brownies." he told her.

"I also made cheesecake, but that has less of an aroma." he then admitted with a small laugh.

"I just wanted to make cheesecake."

Ash looked over towards Rowena, and waved.

"Yo." he replied.

"So how'd it-" he started to ask, before Lunet came into view.

"...wow!" he exclaimed.

"You look good, kid!" he told her with a smile in his tone.

"Excellent work, Mom!" he then said to Rowena.

"Well, nice to meet you, Lunet." Lindsay said.

He then stepped out of the way so Kitt could start moving, alongside Lunet. Lunet had said that the feline had been acting as her guide and such, so he gave the both of them the room they'd need.

"Ash is in the kitchen, still." he said.

"You can either go there, or wait in the den, or whatever you wish."

Lindsay chuckled again.

"I'll bet." he said.

"Oh!" he then exclaimed. "How silly of me, I've yet to introduce myself!" he realised.

"I'm Lindsay." he told Lunet. "Lindsay Fyrane." he introduced himself more fully.

"I'm one of the many people that live in this manor." he told her, before pausing. "...people, and one large feline, whom you've already met." he then clarified, clearing his throat a little.

"Seems she's taken to you." he commented further.

Lindsay looked at Lunet's new hair, before giving Rowena a thumbs-up.

"Seems Casey isn't the only artiste around." he chuckled.

"Looks REALLY good. And you picked a good colour, too." he said further, looking at Lunet's hair all around.

"Yeah, from what I was told, this is a 'night-and-day' change." he then commented.

"Heard it was SUPER long too." he went on.

"How's it feel to have shorter hair?" he asked Lunet.

Lindsay sighed heavily.

"All right, all right." he said.

"Sorry, Kitt." he apologised sheepishly to Kitt, as Rowena reached the bottom of the stairs.

"She seems to be all right." he told his mother.

"Probably just smarting in a few places."

Lindsay just sighed and gently set Lunet down so that she was sitting on the bottom of the stairs. Her feet on the floor.

"Your feet are on the floor." he said.

"So you don't need to worry about stepping on any stairs." he told her further.

He then looked as Kitt descended said stairs, and shook his head.

"Kitt, you KNOW better than to be underfoot like that." he scolded her.

"Woah, woah, woah." Lindsay said to the squirming girl that he'd just caught.

"It's all right, it's all right." he told her.

"Are YOU okay?" he asked. "That sounded like a nasty bit of tumbling." he commented.

"But are you all right?" he asked her once more.

He wasn't going to put her down... just yet. He wanted to ascertain that she was all right and could stand on her own before doing something like that. The last thing that needed to happen was for her to have a broken leg, and then put weight on it.

Ash just chuckled, as Kitt laid down again.

"Oh, it's fine." he said, petting the feline on her head, and making his way downstairs.

He reached the kitchen, where he saw Lindsay grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge, and the two smiled at each other.

"Mom's working on a new client, huh?" he asked.

"Yep." Ash responded.

"Cute kid." he commented further.

Before Ash could answer, he reacted to Kitt rising to her feet, and grabbed her collar so she couldn't go in.

"Ah, ah, AH!" he tutted the large black cat.

"And yeah, just came out." he said.

"Coincidentally enough, should be cool enough to eat in about 10." he chucked.

"Also, THIS one was laying at the door like an attached puppy." he laughed, gesturing to Kitt.

"Seems she's really taken to the squirt."