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Once Freya had removed herself from the equation Pepin glanced back at Richard now with a less vicious smile; perhaps one too genuine.

"MAYBE," she replied with a salute of a wispy clawed hand, idly floating her way back to the spot she had initially intended to hang around to people-watch



((And thats me putting Pepin on pause while I fiddle with all the other stuff I need to pay attention to @W@))

Haze's grin widened at her words. Shopping buddy? He was already her buddy? Yeahhh! He was doing pretty good at this friend thing! His gaze roamed the court, hungrily staring at all the food selections--most of it smelled so good to him. Maybe fish wasn't the only good food around?

"A burger?" What was that? Obviously some kind of food. He was used to the more simple names like..fish and water. "Sure--does it taste good?" He asked? At this point, he was ready to eat anything. He was starving! "Do they serve water here? Or is there somewhere I can get some? I'm a little..dehydrated." He whined, scratching at his irritated skin. Ugh..this constant need of water was becoming quite a pain with him being on land most of the time.

"Uhh--surprise me! 'cause I have no idea what those places are!" Whatever the decision, he hoped she would make it soon. He was near ready to charge the counter and steal the food at this rate.

Moments later, Haze practically yelled when something grabbed at his feelers. Spinning around, wide eyed, he stared down the culprit. "Don't touch! Don't touch! They're sensitiveeeee!" Why was everyone after his poor feelers? What did they ever do to them? "Who are you..?" He had never seen this boil before--was he not a student? Er..well, most of the people in the maul weren't..

The witch bounced happily under Ren's arm and giggled as more people surrounded them. They seemed to attract all sorts!
"That's quite a long name there, Little Puppy." Belladonna told Van with a wink, but smiled at his bow. "Should I call you... Cervantes? That sounds so lovely." Even if he told her not to, she probably would. Pesky witches, getting silly ideas into their heads.
Though she wanted to question Ren on what he was going to ask her, he was distracted by the thing's swishing tail. A small squeak of terror escaped the witch and she hoped it wouldn't hit her, but she recoiled behind the gryphon boy, just to be safe.

"May I ask your name?" Belladonna inquired of the red-haired banshee. Any fellow red head was instantly a friend of the witch... But then again, it didn't take much for her to consider people 'friends'...
Just as she was about to question her about what store she needed, a nearby boil with sunglasses questioned the rather smart and scary fellow nearby about a store.
"Oh! Do you need to know where a store is too?" The witch couldn't help but ooze helpfulness.

"Oh, Ren! If you have anymore shopping to do we can go do that and show everyone where the stores are... Are you looking for something too, Cervantes?" Why! They could just form a great big shopping group! It would be lovely! They could all swap stories about school or trying to get into school, because hadn't Cervantes mentioned his application was still being looked over? Ooh! Perhaps that was why all these new faces were cropping up! They were recent applicants. How very interesting!

More rats had crawled out of the recesses of the food court, but as Enzo gathered himself to his feet, he held out a hand as though stopping an army- despite the fact that that it was only a handful and they were more curious than anything. "Aint worth it. The lot of ya'!" He huffed, "Takin' some midget's word over mine. Stompin' on poor defenseless rats." He stomped on plenty of his own but at least they were HIS rats to stomp on.

At least he seemed to have recovered, although he tried not to show a limp.

Brit clapped her hands together under her chin, eyes wide. "Your secret name? Oooooooh! Don't worry my friend I shall tell no one!"

Brit suddenly felt so important and proud for both having guessed his secret name and being trusted with keeping it's secret. Sebastian was being so nice. He was officially her besets friend ever (Although she had a niggling feeling she'd already proclaimed this once. Clearly it showed it must be true.)

And then he went and said magical words to Brit. Go shopping with him? Her eyes got all wide and sparkly before she pounced him in a hug. "I would adore going shopping with you my friend!"

Sebastian wiggled awkwardly in the hug, attempting to remove himself from the ghoul. "Oh. Uh. Yeah," was all he offered up to her.

He took a few steps forward and turned around. Listing off ideas in his head, he looked up and said, "First we need to stop by the potions store, then we can go look at the fun stuff." He was, of course, referring to the fashion shops, but he gave Brit a wink to be ambiguous.

Ohooo~? Someone was talking to him? Cody grinned ear-to-ear and turned towards the gho-- woah. What was it with all of these good-looking ghouls around here? He really had been cooped up with his brothers for too long! This was good, though - first real day out on his own and already making some buddies!

"Yeah, def!" he replied happily to the witch. "Gotta get somethin' new on the ol' eyePod, all this old stuff is wearin' on me." He patted the pocket of his cargo shorts, long sleeves flopping about as he did so. As the witch turned to the gryphon boil at her side to ask him a question, he heard a quiet voice, just barely audible above the din of the food court. Craning over to look around the witch, he spotted the culprit - a banshee ghoul, with hair bright enough to rival his new witchy companion.

"Hey, hey, no need to be quiet!" He moved closer to her and held his grin, oblivious to any discomfort or shyness she may be having. He offered her a gentle nudge on the arm. "Gotta speak up in places like this! By the by, the name's Cody." He shook a hand free of the sleeve to extend it out to her. "Watch the nails, they're kinda sharp." Since Cody lacked an indoor voice, he liked to imagine that most of the group had heard his little introduction. If need be, though, he didn't mind repeating it!

Freya typed up a quick response,



And snapped her phone shut, giving the little imp a brilliant smile. "He's watching our schools play! And I am here shoppings, so he cannit be here when I buy his present." She reached out and tugged on TG's horns softly. "And yeh? Whatchyeh doings out here all alone, Reddy? Shopping for all the ladies whose hearts yehr breaking, ja?"

She wasn't being sarcastic, her smile was gentle and friendly, with no trace of malice in her expression.