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Syb was about to reply to that question (she had been reorganizing her pockets again, because she SWORE she brought an example of her sewing, but she just couldn't find it!) when the hand clamped down on her shoulder and Muka yelled right next to her ear, practically.

"Um, I like to sew clothing? And I'm very good at reattaching limbs--" She looked up at Muka. "Oh! Oh, oh, they were setting up a FEARleading booth earlier! Can we go there?" Then she stopped, looking at Muka's two new friends. "But, um, if you want to go terrorizing ghouls, that's okay, too."

Charlie almost opened his mouth to protest going to the fearleading booth but then he thought about it. Muka had said something about scaring ghouls and ghouls tended to make up the majority of the fear leaders. The gears began to churn in the demons brain as he started to make connections of what the two student candidates were discussing.

"Fearleading sounds really ghouly filled. I say we go," He gave a nod to the three students. Charlie had finally made the connection and was already kind of excited about what was to come.

((Charlie exits to the fearleading booth))

Needle was, to say the least, excited.

Not that it clearly showed of course! She was doing a wonderful job of keeping her excitement off of her face, though in reality it was hard to show extreme emotion with the eyemask she wore. To onlookers, the visiting ghost ghoul was calm, collected and turned her attention this way and that with an air of near disinterest every time she looked up from the campus map she held in her hands; but for the near-twin ghoul that followed her, she was likely as excited and energetic as a puppy for the exact same reason; she was looking at everything.

"Oh, my dear Sister, just look at the size of the library." She said flatly, with a hint of a happy sigh escaping her lips as she passed the campus map from her bruised, scarred and ink-stained hands to that of her partner's, feeling the scrape of the other's arm spikes graze her skin. Oh to feel again! "That simply must be our first stop!" Her voice raised in a very tiny pitch, and before her companion could refute her wishes, the Engraver was already claiming a wrist and wandering off on the path marked by the map.

"Merel just isn't fond of things that she thinks will eat her or loud noises at times despite the fact that out of all of my mice she can cry the loudest," he replied as he made sure Yaus was fine in Willow's hands. When he was sure Yaus was fine he unbutton his jacket so he could reach behind him and un-tuck his shirt to get Merel out. She was clinging with her nails onto the belt of his pants when he finally managed to get his hands on her, making sure he had a good enough grip on her so that she wouldn't fall or scurry up his arm he pulled around to show Willow.

"This is Merel," Joachim replied holding the black colored mouse out in front of him, she was squeaked in protest as she tried to wiggle out of his grasp. "Oh come on Merel," he snapped at her as he brought her closer to his face, "look at Yaus he is calm and having fun what are you going to do let him out show you in front of guest."

The mouse squeaked again and settled down that was until Muka grabbed Joachim by the shoulder and yelled about going outside. Merel was a bit upset over the idea of something that large shouting so close that she bit Joachim's thumb in protest.

"You little..." he hissed as he glared at her for a moment, "your choice the pocket or back where you belong!"

She looked at him and then gave a soft squeak as Joachim put her on the top of his head, "that's more like it."

Looking back at Willow and Syb he shook his head, "sorry about that she can be a handful on her own. Though I guess I could go look at some of the booths if you want to go Syb I don't think I am going to get any sleep here like I hoped, but scaring ghouls is errrr not my thing." He looked at Muka and the other two boil's that stood with him. He felt a little out of place to the boys considering scaring ghouls like his sister usually resulted in a slap in the back of his head.

"You coming Willow?" Not wanting her to feel left out, "if you would like you can carry Yaus along."

"WONDERFUL!" Ulmuka's reply's giddiness was matched by it's volume. He patted Joachim on the back, not to hard, and leaned down. "Don't worry. We'll make sure to be very nice to a few ghouls... just to balance it out!"

His logic was questionable but at least he made an effort! He almost skipped but hopped sideways, much like a bird, out of the circle of friends. He grabbed Sybaline's hand with one of his and he grabbed Joachim's with his other. He didn't seem to know (or possibly care) that boils who held hands got strange looks.

"To the booths!!"

(( exit to FEARleading booth ))

Somewhere in the Library, Petro was busy scanning over the titles. He didn't have a particular love for reading but there were specific types of books he enjoyed every once in a while. After all, what sort of warrior would he be if he focused solely on his body and let his mind rot? Eventually, he settled on two titles and looked to find a place to sit. He had in his arm two books, one about history, the other? Well, Tro was no longer a colt but he wasn't quite a fully grown stallion just yet. It may be a book about Legends and Epics, but honestly, he took it because of all the beautifully rendered pictures printed in it.

It was only when he emerged from the row of book-shelves did he notice there was a gathering of students. More so than usual. Huh. Why were there so many of them? He suddenly remembered it was Open House and brightened. More students meant bigger groups and bigger groups meant more things that would be like home.

The tikbalang wasn't comfortable enough with strangers to simply waltz up to them and introduce himself. But he liked being in the fringes of groups and so, despite the risk of chatter disturbing his read, he wandered over to the tables near the entrance where more students would undoubtedly pass through. And just that moment, several other students passed by and obscured his vision long enough for him not to see where he was going.

"I do." Needle replied just as softly, turning a small smile back at Lattice. "Is this not exciting? It is new! Surely we are due for something different." Her voice was soft, knowing full well of her partner's insecurities. Soon enough the pair of Engravers entered the Library, Needle taking the lead. In their wake only a few other students received brushed from the needle-tips of the spikes in the ghoul's arms, which was pretty lucky all things considered!

"Oh my!" The lead Engraver stopped suddenly as a group of students of various species went passed them, her free hand lifting to rest curled against her chest. "Just look at all of the diversity!" She quipped back at her 'sister' as she started forward again after the crowd passed, too busy looking back at the more timid Engraver to notice the tikbalang right in her path.

Well, she certainly noticed him when she bumped into him, the spikes in her arms jutting into the stranger as much as they jutted into her own chest.