Turn of the Tables (Jay/Cora/Open)

[Lady Leaf]

[scrolly:h(230),w(390),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:10px;margin-left:10px;)] Kero blinked when Felis claimed that he required them to stay for lunch. He hadn’t expected that. It was… It was so awesome! He was going to have lunch with the Duke. Perhaps that meant Felis had liked him.! Oh, he had the strongest urge cheer and hug Alvaro! But, he ahd to stay professional. So, despite his urges, he stayed in his seat “Alright,” he replied, though he couldn’t keep the smile off his face. As Cora spoke about her favour of Felis, Kero couldn’t help but wonder what exactly she wanted to learn. It couldn’t be that hard to act like a noble, could it? Well… eating had a bit to learn, though even a few nobles had trouble with that one. If the meal was fancy enough one could have utensils left right and center, plus more. It was so confusing. [/scrolly] [bg=brown]

[Jay]

Felis grinned a little as Kero accepted the offer, though it was more of an order the way he had given it but still. At Cora's words, he brought a hand to his chin and tried to think over Auntie Madelyn. He'd met her a few times... and well... hmm... That wasn't so much the problem as just getting Cora spick and spam up nicely anyways~ Ah well this would be fun, and he could use a change...."Ah of course I'll help you see Uncle Bernard and Aunt Madelyn," he answered back realizing that he was mildly staring into space while he had been thinking.

Alvaro, meanwhile, just found himself chuckling a bit before he nudged Kero a bit. It was funny to see Kero so ....jumpy but at the same time happy.

[Baroness Charmissey]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/coraposttable2.png);][atrb=width, 507][atrb=height, 375][atrb=style,border:0 teal none,b,Table][scrolly:h(250),w(282),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:113px;margin-left:227px;color:#4e1614;)] Not even once did Cora look up Felis as he thought over if he was going to help her or not. Like she said before if he said no, she would be fine with it. Not like she would call off her quest to see them.. She would just have to wing it is all. Treecko looked up at his trainer and poked her nose. Cora blinked and giggled a little, Treecko smiled happy he was able to make Cora giggle. After a few minutes she heard the words she wanted to her from Feils. She looked up at him with a huge smile and her eyes lit with joy. " Thank you Felis!! I promise I wont be a wast of your time, I will try to learn everything you can teach me quickly." Cora said and looked over at Kero and Alvaro, still smiling. Happy they everything at worked out for everyone. [/scrolly]

[Lady Leaf]

Kero Blackthron ~ Lance Rossi

Kero listened as Cora asked and explained her question to Felis. Cora seemed very unsure of herself but Kero had a good feeling that Felis would say yes. He was getting the impression that Felis was a rather caring young man. It was very different from the Duchies he was use to. When Alvaro nudged him, Kero realized that he kind of gone into a daze, and he quickly smiled. Thank the powers of the earth that Alvaro had came with him to meet Felis. He probably would have been in a nervous ball by now if he hadn’t. He just needed to keep relaxing. “By the time you meet your mother you’ll be an expert. Just make sure to be, hu?” Kero turned part way through his tiny pep talk when heard someone else entering the room. His body had turned a bit in the chair to see who it was. Long blond hair, blue eyes, soft skin… Kind of looked like Felis.

The look that first came onto Lance’s face when he entered the room no doubtfully ‘Crap!’ He had be talking to someone on his cell phone, and just tucked in back into his inner pocket of his suit when he entered the room. It wasn’t until he actually looked up that he realized he was interrupting what looked like a meeting. Most of him just wanted to turn around and walk out. However, before he could he realized that would be horribly rude of him especially since one of the men had stopped speaking when entered. So instead he quickly lowered his head and gave a small bow. “I apologize I didn’t mean to interrupt I hadn’t expected anyone to occupying this room.” Lance claimed before standing himself back up again, his eyes dropping to the side. He had been using this room often to do work in. It was brighter and more comfortable than his bed room.

[Jay]

Alvaro had to fight the odd urge to take the conversation somewhere though he had not a clue where. It was just starting to bore him now. However, when the door opened, his head turned, and he found himself staring at a blond haired man. A nervous twitch hit Alvaro's eyelid as his mind raced. Approximately six three..anywhere from one eighty to two hundred pounds..... Realizing what he was doing, Alvaro blinked and shook his head. Why it went with some people and not with others, Alvaro could never be too sure.

Felis just grinned a little at Cora's expression and nodded his head lightly. As Kero talked, the duke had been coming up with something else to say but stopped and turned his head as the door echoed a complaint. M? Blue eyes sat on Lance, and for a moment, Felis's smile oddly wavered. However, this was gone in an instant. "Morning big brother~" he chimed rather lightly.

[Baroness Charmissey]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/coraposttable2.png);][atrb=width, 507][atrb=height, 375][atrb=style,border:0 teal none,b,Table][scrolly:h(250),w(282),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:113px;margin-left:227px;color:#4e1614;)] Cora was so happy that Felis was willing to help her, Then Kero started to say something but stopped when someone walked into the room. Cora's eyes looked up at the new comer and she tensed up out of habit. A noble she did not know, and when Felis said brother, her eyes grew wide and she looked at Feils then back at Lance. So he was a cosine as well..Though she said nothing not wanting to draw attach-in to her self.But she knew she had to say something, he did say he was sorry after all. So , Cora gave a nod and said. " It's ok." Yeah it was short but that's all she was willing to say at the moment.. And Cora found her self hoping that Felis would not say who she was.. already she felt like to many people knew what she was. But she had a feeling she would be adding this noble to the list.. Oh well life cannot go the way one wanted it at times. Cora's Treecko looked at Lance and a devious smile came to his face, to him he did not care if this guy was a noble.. He was just someone knew to prank. [/scrolly]

[Lady Leaf]

Big brother? Kero looked back at Felis for a moment before returning his gaze to Lance. Last he had heard Felis was the oldest Rossi left alive. Clearly he had missed a bit of news while being away from his regular duties. Not that it made a large difference to Kero anyway. Still, he did find himself a tad curious as why the older brother had given up his title if was in fact alive.

Upon hearing Felis’s words, Lance looked back up and gave a light smile. “Good morning,” was his reply before realizing that the people in the room wouldn’t know who he was. Nor did he know who they were for that matter. Being the curious bugger he was, he couldn’t help but at least try to get their names. “Ah, I’m afraid I’ve never met any of you before. My name is Lance,” He introduced himself, before gesturing to Felis, “Felis’s brother.” Obviously.

Kero let out a cheerful but nervous smile after the introduction. “It’s really nice to meet you,” he replied, unsure if he should stand and give a bow as well. He decided against it and instead went straight into introducing himself as well. “I’m Kero Blackthrone, count of the south and this Alvaro, my boyfriend.” Kero hadn’t noticed it, but Lance’s smile wavered at his last word. Boyfriend? No wonder the Blackthorne family had always struggled to be taken seriously.

[Jay]

As Lance introduced himself, it snapped Feliciano back into proper introductions of sorts. "Ah, right, and this is Cora," he stated after a moment. "They're here about our basement guests," Felis had to struggle not to sigh at the very end of that but managed to pull it off in the end.

Meanwhile, Alvaro's purple eyes were scanning over the form of Lance for a few more seconds before they moved back to Kero as he introduced him. Possibly lucky for Lance, Alvaro hadn't been staring at him when his smile wavered. Possibly due to his slightly overkeen eyesight, Alvaro would probably have caught it. However, even in that, it was doubtful as to whether he would have been able to read Lance's thoughts on the matter.

Felis breathed in a little and shrugged his shoulders. "Was there something you needed?" he asked directing the question at Lance well enough.

[Baroness Charmissey]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/coraposttable2.png);][atrb=width, 507][atrb=height, 375][atrb=style,border:0 teal none,b,Table][scrolly:h(250),w(282),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:113px;margin-left:227px;color:#4e1614;)] Cora gave a weak smile when Feils told her name to Lance, at least he did no more then that. But she knew this noble would find out sooner or later, she just hoped not right now. Though Cora did notice the change in Lance's face when Kero said Alvaro was his boyfriend. That told Cora this noble was like most and looked down on others. Eh, whatever she was not going to say anything. She just smiled the best she good at Lance and said. " Nice to meet you Lance." She said before looking back at Feils, " Feils, what time would be best for the lessons? And right after she asked Treecko broke free of Cora's arms and jumped right onto Lance hair, before anyone could really react. Treecko yanked off the ribbon that was holdng Lance's hair up. When his long blonde hair fell Treecko messed it with as fast as he could making it as messy as he could. Soon after he jumped off Lance's now messed up hair and ran out of the room and down the hallway Lance's ribbon still in his mouth.. Cora stood there unable to react much less think about this. For a few seconds she was stuned. But she snapped out of it now was doing everything in her will power not to start laughing. " Oh my goodness! I'm soo soo sorry!!" was all Cora cauld say though her shock and holding back laughter. Cora then ran out of the room past Lance and into the hall way to chase down her little treecko and hoped to catch him before anyome else did! Treecko meanwhile was way ahead of Cora and was almost out side. He then used quick attack to poost his speed, soon he was outside in the garden and ran off to find a hiding spot. [/scrolly]

[Lady Leaf]

[scrolly:h(230),w(390),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:10px;margin-left:10px;)] Kero nodded in agreement when Felis claimed why they were there but said nothing. This Lance guy seemed to stiff and formal, it was kind of creepy. Weren’t they brothers? He’d have thought that… well it wasn’t like he had any siblings to compare it to anyway. He was an only child after all. Or as far as he knew. Eh, it wasn’t his place to question it anyway. The guests in the basement? Ah, then perhaps they would be getting rid of them soon. Damn buggers were causing Felis a lot of stress. That was something even Lance could see. Though he didn’t get a chance make any comments on the basement guests. Instead he had nodded to Cora’s words before Felis asked if their was anything he needed. It caused Lance to mentally sigh as he knew he now had no reason to stay any longer than he already did. He had been wondering why Felis was speaking the count about the intruders when he remembered the name Nero had given when talking about the wanted posters. Kero certainly wasn’t the elder man Lance remembered which meant that man must have passed away. He wondered if Nero had figured this out yet? Though he doubted he would be talking to that man anytime soon. Last time they had spoken he only managed to become more frustrated than before. “Ah, no, I will be on my way now,” Lance replied to Felis, partly wondering what lessons Cora was speaking about, “It was a pleasure meeting you all” He gave another small bow and was about to straighten himself again to turn and leave when he felt something heave land on his head. That was followed by the sudden feeling of his tied back hair being loosened as the tie was removed which was also followed by an attack on his head. It caused a rather panicked response from Lance as he lifted his hands up to his head and yelped something like, “Get it off!” Just before he could grab the pokemon, however, it had jumped down and ran off down the hall. Lance had instantly swung around to yell at it in anger but stopped himself. He couldn’t have an out burst in front of his brother and the others. He had to keep up his act. So instead, a rather pained expression of both frustration and agony that his beautiful hair had been messed with crossed Lance’s face. “It took my ribbon!” He finally turned around, and exclaimed to Felis with a rather disbelieving tone. He almost sounded as if he expected Felis to be able to do something about it. Lance probably would have chased after the pokemon as well, but his own mind was more concerned with desperately trying to straighten his hair. Now the entire time this event unfolded, Kero had been trying his very best to hold in a laugh. His expression was twisting this way and that until finally he let out a small ‘Ha!’ before quickly covering his mouth with his hand. Though the hand on his mouth just couldn’t hold back the giggles that came forth. [/scrolly] [bg=black]

[Jay]

As Cora asked about the lessons, Felis put a finger to his chin and was about to answer when Lance stated that he was leaving. Nodding his head, Felis made to wave good-bye but was caught when the Treecko seemed to resolve to play with Lance's hair. Watching this, all Felis could do was fight back the urge to burst into a fit of giggles and watch. As the Treecko ran out followed then by Cora, Felis put a hand to his mouth and managed to stifle a good number of giggles that had worked their way up into him.

Alvaro Gean was far from one to hold anything back and instead broke out laughing rather hard at the entire situation as it played out. The green haired man didn't even bother to cover his mouth and instead sat one hand on his forehead and just laughed rather hard as he leaned back into his chair nearly causing the chair to fall over in the process. However, it was when the chair tipped that Alvaro caught himself rather quickly and sucked in a sharp bit of air. He had been feeling better, but just now.... That... hadn't been good. Forcing a smile onto his face and trying to play it off, Alvaro allowed himself to laugh a few more times before falling quiet again as Cora rushed out of the room and after the Treecko in turn.

Meanwhile, sharp blue eyes had set themselves on Alvaro, and for a few seconds, something rather odd flickered on Felis's face. Sure he could laugh at his brother even a bit, but no one else. Falling into something far more ordered than it had been previously, Felis's face relaxed again yet didn't seem to have that light air that it had previously taken. Looking back at Lance, Felis sighed a bit. "Sorry big brother," Felis muttered before standing up and looking towards Kero and Alvaro. "If you won't mind waiting here," Felis said looking at Kero and Alvaro before turning and then starting out of the room and after Cora and Treecko.

As Felis left, Alvaro found himself blinking. Had he... What had been that look just now? So iced, heh. It seemed that the duke had his own knives and daggers when he wanted to use them. Alvaro sucked in some air and looked sideways towards Lance before then looking at Kero.

Outside of the castle, Rosie El Roserade was snipping at the bushes doing his best to make them look in order and only succeeding a bit. It would take time for the trees and shrubs to return to their previous marvel stature, and it was possibly this that settled badly with the Roserade. It just... made him sad. However, when the sounds of movement finally caught his ears. Turning just as the Treecko had used quick attack, Rosie frowned. That was.... that girl's pokemon, hmph. Shaking his head, he turned back and began to snip at the bushes again.

[Baroness Charmissey]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/coraposttable2.png);][atrb=width, 507][atrb=height, 375][atrb=style,border:0 teal none,b,Table][scrolly:h(250),w(282),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:113px;margin-left:227px;color:#4e1614;)] Cora by now, had no idea to find this all very funny or very bad.. perhaps a little bit of both? Cora ran through the halls and came to the door her Treecko can ran though, before she ran through it she saw Rosie but decided not to ask that mean Pokemon of her Treecko ran through here. " If I know Treecko... He would want to find a good hiding spot after he pulled a prank... The garden.." Cora said and ran out the door. When she was in the garden she stopped and looked around. Not knowing those place very well she had no idea what hiding spots to start looking at. " Treecko!! Come out right now!!!" Cora yelled in a stern voice. But Treecko did not come. He had found a good hiding spot and was going to stay right there till he found or is ready to come out. " Well.. I can just kiss those lessons good bye... Blast you Treecko..." Cora and in a sad and angry tone. She had a feeling Feils would be mad at her for what her Pokemon had done... And how could she face Lance after this?? he seemed like he was really really angry.. Cora them started to walk around the garden looking for Treecko hoping to be the one to find him first. [/scrolly]

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[Lady Leaf]

[scrolly:h(230),w(390),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:10px;margin-left:10px;)] Kero continued to try and hold back his laughter, which was growing harder and harder as Alvaro fully laughed aloud. It wasn’t until the green haired man almost toppled over his hair that Kero settled as well. “Are you ok?” Was the first question that came from his mouth as he looked over to Alvaro. His attention didn’t waver until Felis asked them to wait where they were. With a small nod and a “Of course,” Kero turned back to Alvaro and gave the man a goofy grin. He hadn’t seen the look Felis gave Alvaro and took very little note the slight change in him. Lance on the other hand was looking more and more pissed off as everyone laughed at him. He was getting closer and closer to the point where he wanted to just yell at them all before stomping out but that anger had been swept away. Oddly, it wasn’t he, who had managed to push it away. Lance had noticed the look Felis gave Alvaro and well… it had confused him. Did his brother not like the man or perhaps… His efforts were starting to show. Well then… With a sigh, and a slight huff, Lance turned and followed his brother out of the room. “Do you know where that pokemon and … Cora? Would have gone?” He asked as he walked, his dark blue eyes scanning the hallway quickly but seeing nothing as he continued to straighten his hair. “I’m sorry Felis. I didn’t mean to ruin your meeting.” [/scrolly] [bg=black]

[Jay]

As Feliciano and Lance left the room, Alvaro was quiet for a bit. "Did you see that?" he finally asked with something that was far from his general smile but somehow managed to keep a light enough air at least.

Felis, meanwhile, just continued to walk down the hallway. As he heard Lance's comment, all the blond could do was sigh a bit. "It's fine. It was ending anyways," he answered back first and foremost before considering where Cora and that Treecko could have gone. However, when Cora called out to her Treecko, Felis at least heard something and headed towards the exit.

[Baroness Charmissey]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/coraposttable2.png);][atrb=width, 507][atrb=height, 375][atrb=style,border:0 teal none,b,Table][scrolly:h(250),w(282),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:113px;margin-left:227px;color:#4e1614;)] Cora by now was running around the garden looking for her Treecko, but it was like trying to find a needle in a hay stack! Cora started to grow more frustrated, she wanted to be the first to find him. She did not even what to think what would happen if Felis and Lance found him first... Though she was more worried about Lance then Felis.. " Treeckco, this is no time to be playing like this... Oh! I have an idea. Poochyena! Come on out!" Cora called as she took out his pokeball and threw it. When Poochyena was out he blinked and looked around. Hm? He had been to this place before. He looked back at Cora and wagged his tail and barked in greeting. "Poochyena, I need your help looking for Treecko. He played a not very nice prank on someone and I would like to find him first. Can you please help me?" Cora asked her little dark type Pokemon. Poochyena nodded with out hesitating, he would help her find Treecko. Poochyena then started to sniff the air, with in a few minutes he caught hold of Treecko's scent and started to follow it. Cora then followed Poochyena, trusting him to find Treecko, with in a few minutes they did. Treecko was hiding in a tree no one would have found them there if they where not looking in the right spot. " Thank you Poochyena, Treecko!! I found you come down right now!" Cora said in a tone a angry parent would use on a misbehaving child. Sheepishly Treecko came down with the ribbon in hand, when he was on the ground he walked over to Cora and held up his prize. Cora took it and held up Treecko's pokeball. " Return Treecko.." And with that Treecko was back in his pokeball. Cora sighed and put it away, she then turned and started to walk back with Poochyena at her side. " What a day this turned out to be.." Cora grumbled. [/scrolly]

[Lady Leaf]

At Alvaro’s question, Kero looked over at him and blinked. “You mean the Treeko taking that guys hair ribbon?” He asked, clearly not knowing Alvaro was talking about Felis, “That was too funny. I can see why the Treeko would pick him to do that too though. I mean, did you see how long his hair was?” He chuckled at this for a moment. It was funny, and it wasn’t like the guy had been hurt. So, no harm done, right? Right.

Lance seemed to give a small nod to Felis’s as he claimed that their meeting had been ending anyway. For once Lance truly hadn’t meant to interfere with Felis’s time. On any normal occasion he may have been but he had been rather shocked to find anyone even in the green room. But he had already apologized and there was no point in dwelling on it further. So instead he continued to follow Felis around the corners and what looked to be leading towards the gardens. Sure enough, once he had found himself outside, Lance saw the image of Cora in the distance. When he drew close enough, his eyes fell down to the Poochynea for a moment before looking back up at Cora. “I take it you retrieved my ribbon?” He asked, trying his best not to sound upset. He had to keep his temper in. He just had to. Felis was friends with her after all.

[Jay]

Alvaro blinked a little at Kero's words as it seemed that he hadn't seen. Deciding it best to simply keep on with what Kero had seen, he grinned a bit and nodded. "It was rather long... I couldn't imagine keeping my hair down that long.." he hummed a bit twisting the hair that was held sideways by the clip with his adjacent hand as though he had grown bored with the situation and had decided to look at something a bit more fascinating.

Felis sighed a bit as he came out and finally caught sight of Cora. However, he also caught sight of Rosie who had looked back at the sound of more people leaving. For a brief moment, there was a subtle interchange between human and pokemon before Felis turned his attention back to Cora. After a moment, his eyes fell to what was in her hand but moved back up again. "He hasn't changed yet," he hummed a bit more good naturedly than what one would have expected. He meant the Treecko, of course. Having already been pounced once before himself, Felis found himself remembering the event.

[Baroness Charmissey]

[atrb=style,background-image:url(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv181/SojiRem/coraposttable2.png);][atrb=width, 507][atrb=height, 375][atrb=style,border:0 teal none,b,Table][scrolly:h(250),w(282),sy,as(padding:4px 0px 5px;margin-top:113px;margin-left:227px;color:#4e1614;)] Cora stopped walking when she saw Lance and Felis walking over to her. Of course they would come out here. When Lance asked if she had gotten his ribbon back Cora nodded and looked right into his eyes. Lance may have been trying to be nice and hold his temper, but his eyes held anger in them. Yep he hated her, with a sigh Cora held up the ribbon. " Here it is, and its not damaged. Sorry my Treecko took it." Cora apologized and she was only going to that once. She was not going to get down on her knees and beg for him to forgive her. When Felis spoke Cora turned to him with a sorrowful expression before she gave a weak smile and scratched that back of her neck. Man, what was she going to say to Felis?? Ehh.... He was most likely annoyed with her now.. And doing a very good job at not showing it. Or so she thought anyway. " Yeah, he is a work in progress. He is not as bad as he used to be though. When I first met him he was terrorizing some kids in this town I came to, Treecko is the very first Pokemon I caught. But I'm sure after a while Treecko will calm down." Cora kinda found her self rambling nervously and blushed a little, and looked off to the side. " Well... I guess I will be going now.. If you no longer want to teach me I...I understand." Cora said trying to hide her sadness/disappointment and started to walk around the two thinking Felis would not want to teach her anymore. [/scrolly]

[Lady Leaf]

[scrolly:h(230),w(390),sy,as(padding:4px;margin-top:10px;margin-left:10px;)] Kero chuckled a bit as he stood from his chair and made his way in front of Alvaro. “It would be really hard to comb in the morning. Though your hair is getting pretty long. When is the last time you cut it?” He announced with a wide smile before reaching out to light graze Alavro’s hair. His hand stopped when he reached Alvaro’s own hand playing with the clip and went to take hold of it. “I‘m sorry I got you dragged all the way out here, but thank you. I think Id have keeled over with a panic attack by now if you hadn’t come along.” It was true. Kero was nervous enough how it was being there even with Alvaro by his side. He wasn’t sure why he felt so tense around the Dukes, but he did. He just really wanted to work hard to show his family name proud. Lance gave a small bow as he reached out to take the ribbon Cora handed him, “Thank you” He had replied, with a calm tone. He was actually rather grateful it wasn’t damaged. Getting the perfect ribbons wasn’t always easy. Mostly because Lance was entirely too picky. “Don’t worry about it. I understand what it’s like to train pokemon. It took me a while to teach my Deino from chewing everything. Now that he is evolved it’s been a struggle keeping his two heads from fighting.” He was trying his best to sound understanding. It was hard though. Her first pokemon? He certainly hoped she hadn’t been training pokemon for long. He certainly didn’t allow his pokemon to get the better of him… at least not always… Vipin seemed to see how much he could get away with at times… and a few others… but that was not something he would admit aloud. Not ever. Besides, there was nothing one couldn’t teach a pokemon not to do. They were nothing more than brainless creatures. Simple consistency would prevail eventually. [/scrolly] [bg=black]

[Jay]

Felis sighed a little quietly but nodded his head. As Lance spoke, he couldn't help but frown at the thought of a Zwelious fighting its two heads and running over his flowers. However, as Cora stated her last statement, the blond haired man blinked. "What? Hah, you silly," he smiled stepping forwards and then sideways before setting his arm on Cora's shoulder trying to stop her in her steps. "Of course I'll still teach you." Just because of a small incident, he wasn't... going to stay angry...

Meanwhile, Alvaro nodded his head a bit as Kero spoke. "I'd have to say a few months," he hummed after a moment. As his hand was taken, Alvaro slowly moved it a bit closer to his face and set Kero's hand between his cheek and his own hand. "And don't be sorry, heh... it's all good," he grinned a bit looking at Kero and nodding his head again.