Physically inclined. Yes. Yes the man was and though Airey didn't agree on that bit, still loud. Loud enough to bother the cat man.

It was all the same to him, Airey finding trouble with his arm currently slung around his shoulder...except.........ew......what was that? Maddox retracted his hand about the same time his DEAR FRIEND touched his neck and retracted his own. "Merlin's beard Airey. This will be half an hour of licking. Ew." He eased away from the man wiping whatever it was back on the man's suit before circling him once to get a look at it.

His attention was momentarily drawn by Ursula's thanks and Megan's agreement to be the welcoming committee. "Splendid!" One less thing he had to do in the long list he typically didn't feel like getting done. He watched Eliora make her entrance. Maddox offered her a nod of greeting but she seemed busy with the new bloke and she was honestly a lot more work than he was prepared for. Speaking of work, Airey needed someone.

Well. "Megan can do, can't you Megan?" When she was done her welcoming duties anyway. Maddox brought his hand to his nose to get a whiff, scrunching his nose after he caught the scent. "You got a leak down in there or something?"




"Belladonna." She repeated, a smile playing on her lips at Olly's suggestion. "It might just work." If not, the Head Auror certainly wasn't at a loss for ideas. "Any big decrees to look out for now that you're in charge of the flesh eaters?" Of course, there was other stuff too, but the former Gryffindor had very specific interests and if the plant wasn't likely to kill you, it wasn't likely to be on her radar.

The extended overseas trip Bee mentioned, well, "Sounds epic, depending on where you went and what you did of course." If it was anything like what Lou had had her heart set on then it likely wasn't as exciting as she would like but she was getting better at the principle of to each their own.

"Any plans now that you're back? You missed a ton. We had a nutjob for a Minister--I'm sure you heard about that. Turned this place into a zoo. Merlin he's lucky neither me nor Emm had anything from the food court. He's up in holding right now. I wouldn't guarantee he'd still be in one piece if we had." Things could've ended very differently for Mr. Nickels. Very different, indeed.

Javy got a welcoming grin when he came over. It was obvious he wasn't the sort to mingle in a crowd but that's what this thing was for and it'd certainly make things go over more smoothly. "I'm alright. Suffering through these unnecessary formalities like everyone else. Places I'd rather be, but it's not the worst." Nah. The Ministry had forced her to suffer through even less exciting meet ups. "How's Cami?"

Ugh. Benzi was killing her here. All these hints without actually SAYING what it was and by the sound of it, something wonderful--Alexa Cambridge wonderful anyway. "If I swung my Head Auror weight, would you fully brief me on the situation and let me tag along?" Of course, she knew as Head Auror, she COULD literally do this but no, it was still his case and the amusement in her tone was just that. She wasn't ordering him about--but Merlin it'd be nice. Her own cases had gone cold.

"What a coincidence, Emm's at her grandparent's too. Insisted her cousins tag along. Leave's Arisa free but my dad's got the full force of it." Three kids, two and a half of them were screamers. She felt his pain.