Tam had 'met' plenty of her own experiments-- it was her job to design and supervise their cognitive development from the cellular stage to their being birthed from their tanks, as well as throughout the intensive testing and training her staff would put the full-grown newborns through to ensure thier proper function. But what she hadn't experienced before was the capacity for speech in these new Mods, the ones she knew were not entirely legal, outside of that one poor, shot creature who'd died on a guerney, begging her for a life she couldn't save.<br/><br/>She, herself, much to her shame, had created the means of blocking neural pathways that enabled GenMod units to understand speech without the ability to form language themselves. Steinman, that creepy bastard, had overidden her research altogether, despite it being a breakthrough in psychobiology on more than one level, and simply ordered her department to produce Mods without vocal chords at all.<br/><br/>Tamis was almost smug about the fact that Steinman's solution was so much easier to circumvent than hers would have been... whoever was responsible for the illegal implants had clearly not found it too difficult. Until it occurred to her that this was probably the exact reason he'd wanted it so.<br/><br/>She studied the two quietly while Nine spoke, focussing on the feline when he revealed his status as a military unit.<br/><br/>This...<em>he</em>... was what she was afraid of.<br/><br/>Guillermo was a name she knew, too-- what Lab employee didn't know it? He was part of GenCorps' history, a founder of the research by which the company had grown to its current proportion. She shifted her gaze back to Maya, curiously. Why was the wolf-girl asking for him? Had she had contact with him, somehow?<br/><br/>"I think we need to find Guillermo, and fast. I want some answers." Tam interjected, suddenly aware of the time. She wasn't going to be able to stay in The Pits too long without answering some of her amassing phone messages. She was supposed to be visiting friends in Greentown, not out here in the ass end of civilisation talking to rebels and illegal creatures. And she couldn't risk using her phone here, in case Steinman's paranoia extended to surveilling all his staff.. again.<br/><br/><br/><br/>