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The reaper just nodded back to Mayaa as she took his greeting.

Ah, there was Kettil now as well. Shun just nodded quietly to him in acknowledgement. Apparently, Freya didn't exactly appreciate him looming over her like that. Shrugging off her antics, he paused as he heard a certain hell hound shouting out at him. Scanning the crowd, he managed to spot the guy before casually flipping him off. He had half a mind to throw a dagger at him, but not tonight.

The finger would do for now.

... It was probably a bad time to do such a gesture as Xiu's uncle had come on by. The man was vaguely familiar, having seen him.. sort of.. in the fog. Turning towards the older man more, he nodded before bowing lightly to the guy.. only to see his hand extended. Slowly, he took his hand to shake a little awkwardly.

"That would be me, yes. Xiu has mentioned you before."

“That is what you get for smacking my a** with those barbs for hands!” Hel yelled back at her sister. “Do not lay your hands on me if you do not want to be hit in return!” One of the basic valkyrie principles. Even though Freya swatted her bottom, Hel retaliated with a face shot…other valkyrie principle…anything was fair game. Period.

Hel huffed, and gave a bit of a wave to Kettil as he approached. “Yo.” She greeted. “Happy Halloween! Where is my sister’s leash? You let go of it.”

Making her way to the food table, Gene picked Danny and co. out quickly, and instantly floated over to the flame demon, giving her a good squeeze from behind.

"Hey hon, enjoying tonight?" She asked, obviously enjoying it herself.

Jude had followed after Eva simply glad that he ended up male once again and that he'd lost track of Eva for a mo--Wait.

His expression darkened a bit as he gazed around until he saw who he assumed was Eva talking at the crowd trying to find them again. He resisted the urge to facepalm and his youthful expression became bright, "Hey! There you are," his arm moved to drape around the shirtless form of Eva's golem, "Don't worry me like that! Thought I lost you in the crowd again~."

The recon mission to Halloween Town at least was giving Gale a distraction. He had not been sure he wanted to come back so soon to the place where Bix had...no, he wasn't thinking about that. This was a mission. His mind was focused on the things he had to do, information he would need to collect, answers for questions that were being asked.

Why were his golems always shorter than his actual height.

"E..." Gale started to say, and then he caught sight of "Eva" and "her" golem and put both of his hands over his face and sighed.

Why.

"Nice, uh..." he gestured idly towards her bare chest, the faintest hint of pink touching his cheeks.

She gave an awkward wave to Kettil.

Wow... things were getting so lively!
Normally, she would of been really excited and probably try to harass every single ghoul and boil in the vicinity, but she felt slightly overwhelmed, and Freya... well. She was absolutely terrified of her at the moment.

So when Xiu extended the invitation to meet some of her friends, Mayaa was more than eager to jump at the chance.

"Oh, yes, I'd like that a lot!
Xiu was nice. She liked Xiu.

"Just got back. I was uh... sort of takin' a break," Nuk replied, pausing as he considered her question, finally giving another shrug of his shoulders as he deemed it too difficult to describe why he hadn't been in school for a year, "Long story." Looking up and away, the skinwalker stared at the sky for a few heartbeats, trying to look inconspicuous, as to not invite any more school questions. Like 'why don't I see you in class?' or 'hey aren't you that guy who's always in detention?' It had been pretty dumb of him to bring up Amityville, seeing as he was not exactly model student, being... well... the exact opposite of a model student and all.

His saving grace, ironically, happened to be the exact situation which had invited the conversation to begin with. His attention focused too intently on the stars, making a great show of being very busy trying to count them, he didn't notice the well-dressed Reaper who was meandering towards them, neither party noticing the other. It wasn't until he felt the scuff of boots against his foot that he snapped his attention back down to the festival around them, startled as the blonde stumbled a few steps before catching himself. Unfortunately for Sparrow, Nuk was not in the habit of trying to catch boils if they tripped, so had he not managed that remarkable feat of balance and caught himself, the reaper would have smacked his face right into the pavement without the monster lifting a finger.

No, that's not quite true -- he would have lifted a finger to laugh and laugh and laugh.

As it was though, instead Nukpana merely stared at the boil for a second, watching him right himself and turn to apologize politely, a look of consideration clearly crossing his face, weighing a decision. The giggle from Eira seemed to draw his attention for a second, glancing over at her, but his eyes went back to Sparrow just as quickly. In half a second, it seemed the skinwalker had made his choice; pushing himself away from the ledge he had been leaning against, Nuk puffed out his chest, spreading his arms in an aggressive pose, sauntering towards Sparrow with a deep-set scowl in his face, circling him.

"HEY, WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOIN' BIRD-BRAIN," he growled, baring his teeth and wrinkling his nose in a canine-fashion, "You wanna start something, huh?!"

Lifting his chin higher as he stared down at the reaper, Nuk met Sparrow's eyes before he grinned, shrugging off his 'aggression' and nudging him with his elbow as he walked back past him.

"Naw, jk. S'all good bro," he replied with a snicker, leaning back against the low stone wall again, "... don't get any ideas though, I ain't calling YOU treatheart too."

It wasn't that she was late. She just took her time getting ready. It was hard, keeping Malodore from seeing what she had planned. But in the end, she walked into the square, clothed in a way that actually hid who she was. No visible tentacles, no skin showing, her face covered behind a dark cowl - not to mention the mask she'd made. It was nothing compared to the beautiful mask that was a part of Malodore's body, but it was all she could do on short notice. Goggles were the easy part. Making a beak.. well..

She did the best she could.

Slipping through the crowd unnoticed felt.. conflicting. It was nice, and yet disturbing at the same time. She adjusted to the feeling, watching and listening very carefully without giving herself away.

Halloween was the day you could be someone completely different. This, she had to admit, was as different as she could get.