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"You sound like my ex," Nikki said, her voice turning irritated for the first time.  The insult itself didn't bother her, not as it might a human -- and she wasn't even a hybrid in the first place, unlike others in the group.  She'd seem some like them get targeted by the same nasty groups that went after Mirans in general.  There were even some that saw nekomi in particular as a blight, with their habit of turning up everywhere and the way they embraced the variety that came from interspecies relationships.  "'Cept he just went with 'earwig', whereas you picked something you'd be better off calling a mirror."  Her tail lashed as she stalked forward, away from the group.  That was the [i]last[/i] thing she wanted to be thinking about -- the whole reason she'd been looking for excitement to start with.