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A seemingly innocent fox naps on a table.

In front of him is the remains of what appears to be shrew casserole.

Four tails are wrapped around him for warmth.

Would be a pity to disturb him, wouldn't it?

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Blink-blink.

"Well, a tentacled burrito is pretty damn freaky, too," Foxtrot says. "Hey, sometimes it's damn good to find out that some writer was WAAAAAY off-base. They gonna sue his estate or something?"

"The general impression that I got was that they wanted to be left alone, since for the most part they had human relatives as well as Grandma P. down in the ocean," Ray says. "Although I think they're working on some kind of lobbying tactic for better enforcement of the Clean Water Act."

"I should think so!" he says. "There's a bunch of elven conclaves back who are trying to do the same thing about forests. Kinda hard to lobby and keep the non-human status of your clients hush-hush, though. Talk about round-about and sneaky. I hear that Fairhold's lobbyist was thrown out of law school because the professors were actually scared of him."

"Well, considering that some of these guys could pass for humans if you just assumed they were insanely ugly, I think they've got an advantage," Ray says. "These two were out in public, after all."

Foxtrot shakes his head.

"Ray, Ray, Ray...you gotta get a little more political savy with the stuff you've got going with your government and all. It ain't John Q. Public seeing through your cunning disguise that you have to worry about most of the time. It's the opposing lobbies and politicians looking for dirt to undermine you. Sit back and think a moment what would happen if some investigator working for the Oil Industry and their leaky tankers stumbled across the fact that the people standing in the way of getting safety regs relaxed were truly fish-people? And that's WITHOUT adding in Lovecraft's negative publicity blitz."

"Speaking of government," Ray says. "I, uh... kind of got some news I didn't really want."

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