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"What would possess me?" Anna glared at the hawk, forgetting for a minute that she was going outside because nobody was talking to her. "Listen, you, I want to go outside. It's boring in here and besides, there might be somebody left outside still. So I was going to go look for them." She set her feet a bit further apart and folded her arms, completely forgetting that she was wearing a skirt that only went to mid-thigh and that a normal person would freeze in. "If I want to go outside, I'm going outside."

Blossom nodded. She continued to stir the stew and ladled out another bowl, letting two steam quietly on the counter. She didn't want to serve out too many portions at once, for fear of them cooling off too much. Stew was meant to be eaten while hot, after all.

Amelia laughed slightly, covering her mouth to make herself shut up. "Yeah... excellent. If it wasn't a hell's blizzard, I'd be ecstatic, actually. I love snow." She cast her green eyes at the window, where the roaring winds and snow gave the impression of a solid wall of white being pressed upon the panes of glass. "I hope this dies down soon. Or we figure out how to stop it. I wish we at least knew what had caused it..."

"Mmhm." Alihi still stared out the window, a blank expression on her face. Her hand rested on the window, and she sighed lightly.
"..." She shivered slightly, coughing once. Automatically, she pulled her cloak tighter around herself.

And then, she slapped herself on the cheek. "Heh. Sorry 'bout that, Aidan. Spaced out..." She turned to his fellow tactician with a smile. "... You said a tree was trying to eat him?"

Aran had just finished his stew, and sipped the last of his water. The cold water cooled his tongue when the stew burned it a bit, he returned his bowl and glass to where they could be washed and grabbed a bit of bread. "Blossom I had no Idea you could cook so well!" He had eaten better meals before, but Blossom was still a good cook.

Amelia nodded in agreement. "Yes..." she mumbled. She stared at the fire. She wanted to fill this silence, idle chatter would help to relieve the pressing worry of the entire situation, but it didn't seem right to get people gabbing about their training or personal lives with the monster blizzard looming over their heads.

"No... just that Mogalls and Mauthe Doogs attacked and this storm came." Amelia shifted a little. "I've fought them both before. They were sent by the Demon King. But Formortiis was destroyed for good back on Magvel, he couldn't have come back... could someone else have learned to control them all?" Amelia sighed and leaned back a little, tipping her head to the ceiling. "If we knew who was controlling the monsters or letting them run amok here, then we'd know who was causing all of these problems, I'm sure of it."

Blossom turned around and nodded. "Thank you!" she told him. She took his dishes with a little off-tune hum and went to the sink, letting warm water rush in before scrubbing away. The stew would stay warm, and if she started on dirty dishes as they appeared, it wouldn't seem as monumental a task later on.

Alihi laughed. "... Eh, maybe a bit. I was making sure a child wouldn't get cold, so I... uhm... took off my cloak and braved the storm in this." She tossed the cloak behind her shoulder to show what she was talking about: the black undershirt, a green t-shirt, white jeans-like pants, and boots.
"And then I gave the blanket Blossom gave me to the kid, too, so..." She coughed again. "It's nothing, really."

Tibarn's eyes glazed a little as the fourth wall shattered around him, but then he snorted. "I don't know where you got those, you little hack, but everyone knows Laguz weapons can't be unequipped! Besides, my weapon is the Great Talon. Seriously, get into the kitchen," he added as the fabric of reality restored itself, and he turned on his heel and stormed off toward the fire again.