"How illegal? Very illegal." Rene replied.

"Also, when?" he then asked.

"If." he corrected her.

"And that's a BIIIIIG if." he went on.

"It's untraceable, as of now." he continued.

"...and it's long-term effects result in what appears to be a heart attack." he said further.

"So that wouldn't happen."

"See, that'll be the beauty of it." Rene replied.

"I'll go and get a brand new top-of-the-line laptop. And get it insured." he told her.

"If the drug is laced into the keys of it, you won't need to touch it." he continued.

"And odds are you showing up with something like that will attract your tormentors to steal it and use it, or mess with it." he reasoned.

"Especially if you 'accidentally' leave it unattended for a bit."

"You know your tormentors better than I." Rene responded.

"You'd know what they would go after faster than others." he went on.

"You wanna be a lawyer?" he asked.

"Gotta know how your opponents think." he said, tapping the side of his head.

"Stay one step ahead, and always make sure the evidence is properly handled." he continued.

"One way or another." he added.

"Also, I understand that you're wary, and I can understand why, but let's face it... leaving you in a pool of your own blood to die, with chemical burns? They forfeited ANY and ALL rights to fair play." he told her.

"They've established that there's no boundaries, so we'll show them what happens when intelligence and cunning team up against stupid raw force." he said with a grin... and Kalin could swear she saw razor-sharp teeth in his maw.

Rene didn't have much time to wonder about Kalin's calmness, when she asked her question.

And he instinctively slapped a hand over his mouth... before sighing.

He brought his hand away, and shook his head.

He walked closer towards her, and got eye-level with her.

"You're not seeing things." he told her.

"Look." he said, opening his mouth, and revealing that she had, indeed, seen sharp teeth... and that there were 2 rows of them.

"Don't touch." he warned through his open mouth.

Rene sighed again.

"I'm a race that almost went extinct, and hardly anyone remembers any longer." he told her.

He then went to the books that she had arranged, before finding one of the few that weren't medical texts. He brought it towards her and handed her it.

"Look under the table of contents for 'Lantha'." he told her.

"That's what I am, bound to the form of a human to blend in with their society." he said.

"I may look human, but I am a member of an aquatic warrior race." he continued.

"Specifically, a SEA lantha." he then clarified.

"...that's a long story." Rene muttered after a pause.

"But... time is something you have plenty of right now." he admitted.

"You read how the lantha were mostly wiped out in a war against the draydin, yeah?" he asked. "And how it pretty much wiped out both sides?" he asked further.

Kalin nodded.

"Well, what the book DOESN'T tell you is how humans manipulated both sides into the conflict, in an attempt to get us to kill ourselves, so they could sweep in and take the remainder out." he told her.

"It didn't work. They underestimated how strong the individuals in the army were." he went on.

"I vowed revenge against the human race, and embarked on a quest to make THEM extinct, much like they tried to do to US." he told her. "However, I didn't blend in." he said.

"And to cut out a LOT of details, I met someone who bound me to this form, and they taught me that not ALL humans are bad. So I abandoned the 'extinction of the human race' plan, and now just live among them." he finished.

"To you? No." Rene replied.

"These days I've mellowed out from the extinction thing, to trying to help those that are good humans get by and achieve their dreams and stuff." he told her.

"Those that want to make the world more toxic... I bleach out of existence." he said with another grin.

"Those people that are barring your path to success and trying to outright kill you? They have NO idea who they've messed with." he continued.

"You said the ones doing this to you, their families have fingers that extend far?" he asked.

Kalin nodded.

"Well, that doesn't mean a thing to 'The Doc'." Rene responded confidently.

"Yup." Rene responded.

"Also, I'd like a picture of her." he said.

"As well as any known accomplices she may have, or partners in crime, or anyone else she might work with that torments you." he told her. "If she's the ringleader of it all, then I may very well be able to take a lot of them down in one fell swoop." he continued.

"Enough that any stragglers will probably leave you alone, once the numbers are thinned." he added.

As he spoke, Kalin could hear the warrior inside him. Not a brutish warrior that charged into battle for guts and glory, but a tactician that new how to divide, conquer, and formulate strategies for winning.

It was hard to believe he was a doctor now, almost.

"Excellent." Rene responded.

"In the meantime, I have some plans to make." he told her.

"If you want, feel free to use the desktop I have here." he then said.

"It's my main computer, but if the laptop is borked, then I'll let you use the other one here in the meantime." he continued.

It's not password-protected, so... yeah, if you want to, feel free."[/b]

Rene sighed.

"I know." he replied.

"But... I dunno, I just never got around to it." he shrugged.

"If you want to set one up, go ahead." he chuckled.

"Anyway, you get to worse, and I will too." he told her.

"Tomorrow, we'll get a niiiiice new shiny expensive laptop." he finished, chuckling darkly.