While remedial lessons for new Animalians were important, there was also a mandatory tour to help familiarize new members with important institutions in Animalia, especially with the start of Lunar New Year Celebrations starting next week. While Mr. Hyun had already taken a similar tour with Ling when she was first converted, he really didn't get to see some of the things labeled as "exclusive to Animalians". But there still was some things that made him nervous.
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He was on his way to Claw Coliseum to get his membership card when he saw a large crowd in from of the main doors.
"We're having two male gorilla Animalians taking part in a match." said the driver of the bus he was on, "But don't worry, they're both blackback gorillas and fights in the Octagon are heavily regulated so no one gets seriously injured or killed."
But what was more nerve-wracking was the report that the "Great Prince" of the deer Animalians was currently at Claw Coliseum for exercise, and Ling was eager to introduce him to Mr. Hyun. But fortunately, the term "Great Prince" was a title given to the oldest and wisest deer Animalian given to him by some grade school children who had seen the movie Bambi recently so he didn't mind them calling him that, but the other deer also started calling him that so it became more of a formal title than a real thing.
What was also surprising was the fact that the Great Prince also approved of Mr. Hyun, just as Ling said he approved of her. What made the acceptance a little more surprising was the fact that the Great Prince had paid for their tickets to the latest match.
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The guys who were part of Mr. D.'s 'loyalty party' were also learning many things about Animalia, especially about their awakening homosexuality. 'Kip' was greatly surprised that there were six 'available' mares who wanted to spend time with him, but he did the smart thing and decided to spend some time to get to know them. Unfortunately some of the neighbors at the Apartment he stayed at didn't think of it that way and thought he was being a Casanova. Fortunately, those who did so were successfully called out by Animalians who knew what was going on.
'Jack' was also learning new things about his new otter 'status'. While one of them were that he was being more drawn to female otters than his old lover, who was now an orca Animalian. Another one, however, was a bit more nerve-wracking, since it was a meeting with the elders of the Otter Clan, as they now called themselves. But the only thing they really had a problem with was the fact that he still had human hair on his head, which was already to be expected, so it wasn't too much of a problem.
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With Year of the Rat Zodiac training going on, and preparations going on both on Heiya island and Lyre & Animalia, there was a lot more focus on that than other things.