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[empathicfault]

"Will Graham here. Leave a message."

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[empathicfault]

"Yeah," Will agrees, with a quiet nod. "See how you reacted to someone similar, but not the same. And since her similarity makes you think of that, it puts you on your guard." He stops for a moment, corrects himself. "More on guard."

[cactusy]

"She's so understanding about it all," Shaw says, sounding mildly disgruntled about this, too.

[empathicfault]

Will chuckles, because he really gets that disgruntled feeling. "Yeah, she is. I thought she was better at hiding things, for a while. It's harder for me to tell when someone's not human, you know? But she's always been just as full of curiosity and wonder and glee as the day I met her. Which- she was a wolf, then."

It's one of the meetings he's had on the Barge that he remembers the most fondly.

[cactusy]

"She was a wolf when I met her, too," Shaw admits, still pulling a face. "I didn't know she was a person; I thought she was just... a dog."

[empathicfault]

There's more chuckling from him, mostly because- "She had a tag on when I met her, that said she was a warden. But I didn't read it until I'd already thrown some toys for her and- well, I guess it's good I don't babytalk with my dogs."

[cactusy]

"Yeah, uh... funny story; that tag was because of me."

[empathicfault]

And now he actually laughs. "Let me guess- she surprised you with not being a dog, after you'd already spent some time with her?"

[cactusy]

"She shifted back and I tried to punch her in the face," Shaw says, with just a mite of embarrassment. "Turns out she's a pretty good fighter."

[empathicfault]

Will grins. "Kind of serves her right for surprising you like that. I didn't check the tag, but that's on me." He shrugs.

"I am also completely unsurprised that she's a good fighter. Did you two really get into it after she shifted back?"

[cactusy]

"Uh-- kind of. We fought, but it was just a friendly spar to her."

Shaw had been surprised and angry. Iris had just had fun with it, because, as it turns out, she enjoys fighting every bit as much as Shaw does.

"Then last month we went at it in the gym and really freaked out Eiffel. Turns out he thought we were actually trying to kill each other."

[empathicfault]

He looks almost impressed to hear they scared Eiffel. "I don't imagine either of you pulls any punches...especially if you both have Gaius heal you up at the end. I'm almost sorry I missed it."

[cactusy]

"Yeah, that was the plan," she says, her lip curling upwards - she's honestly kind of impressed that they scared Eiffel too, though she knows full well that he's a weenie when it comes to violence. "I'd say we'll do it again sometime, but, uh-- it probably shouldn't be in public."