[All Sphinxed Up]

Nim smiles to Lydia. He finds all of this strangely adorable. She has very nice wings. Really a rather amazing coat given the city conditions and- argh, he actually doesn't know to blame the biologist or the sphinx sides for that one.
"Yes, that's right. Please, call me Nim. The mantle is...an odd thing. Tristan, all of them, all slip and call me Sister when I'm around them despite well, you know.
Um. Aries said that you were probably going to be looking for a cure for yourself but you needed another sphinx for it. I was going to see if maybe my mantle would count for you." And Nim wants to be helpful to his sister's friends! He sets his bag down as he considers Lydia. He can certainly feel something like when he was around Chimera, just not the same. For Chimera it was sisterly. For Lydia it's an odd sense of yeah see look at all that knowledge-gathering and sitting around nice on her paws why aren't you doing that? Stupid sphinxy thoughts.