Team Snagem HQ (Mt. Silver)

[Dumb Furret]

"Usually I lock my door and that's enough, but sometimes he'll sleep in my sock drawer and I forget to turn him out, or it's really sudden and eventually I hear 'Oh jeez your Pikachu!'" Jude waved his arms for emphasis. "And it's a real pain in the butt."  

[Dumb Furret]

"You don't say," Jude said. "So what do you guys actually do?" Get away from the subject for now, he thought. There would be time for testing more dangerous waters later. "All I hear about are meteorites and those funny-looking brothers. And those meteorites don't sound like anything I want a part of. Shame, too. Space junk goes pretty well when you're selling to space geeks even if it's not shiny."  

[Dumb Furret]

Jude pondered that for a moment, tapping his chin. Finally: "I know a thing or two about laying low. And rides. Rides are fun, yes. But for you, this is a kind of a 'I help you so you help me hide' kind of deal?"  

[Dumb Furret]

The corner of Jude's mouth quirked in silent agreement with Warbringer. "I see, I see," he said, suddenly forcing a grin but crossed Chaos off his list of people to tease.

For now, at least.  

[Dumb Furret]

A giggle escaped Jude because he counted any instance of a stranger's talking about his fuzzy butt a victory. "Well," he said. "Shiny things, mostly."

To demonstrate, he pulled a few loose gems from his pocket: a one-half gram topaz, the lapis stone he'd shown Tails, a rough emerald stone which swirled a light and dark shade of green. "Stuff like this, they're not all that expensive. I keep my -real- finds at home. But I'm a Furret and we kinda have a thing for shiny things."  

[Dumb Furret]

"Never a real fortune, but it's handy pocket change when I need it," Jude explained. To back Warbringer's point: "There are a few I just won't part with, of course. Like this -brick- of bismuth crystal. You know, the crystal formation with all those right angles?" He started to sway by the mere recollection. "I could get lost in its nooks and crannies aaaall daaaay~"  

[Dumb Furret]

Jude's grin was wide and toothy. "If that's what you call a fetish, I don't know what you'd call the shenanigans I get up to in bed."  

[Dumb Furret]

"Quite the other way around, actually," Jude candidly said, and very straight-faced.

He really hoped those kids weren't sneaking about, with their big ears and all.