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"Do you really detest dressing up?" Alistair asked, raising his eyebrows. "Good luck finding something I won't enjoy doing with you," he hummed quietly.

Gabriel rolled his eyes a little. It was easy to act normal when he felt at least mostly okay. "Alright, yes, better."

"Well, getting dressed up to go on a date would be something we do together," Alistair pointed out, "so obviously whatever thins thing is would have to be both uncomfortable for me and with you." He sighed. "If it really would bother you, though, I can keep to less fancy places."

"Yes, yes, my hair is a disaster at all times," Gabriel actually laughed, and he genuinely did feel a lot better. "You're good at keeping me sane."

"I've been good thank you" Arian said quietly as he awkwardly returned Harmony's hug with a one-armed hug of his own genuinely happy to see the mint-haired teen again.

"My cousin finally talked me into selling some of my jewellery on Etsy a little while back and I'm at DCU now that I've finished with High School. You?"

He heard his phone buzz with an incoming text and made a mental note to himself to check it after he finished speaking to Harmony. He didn't think it was his cousin given that they still had time before they were due to meet up.

And well it had been a while since he and Harmony had last seen each other.

Penelope was relieved when texts began to come in confirming that (1) she was not insane and (2) her friends were not hurt by the strange flying creatures either. She craned her neck to try and see when all she really wanted to do was run and find each of them in the crowd. She sawChris and Paris approaching and recieved Paris's text soon after. She immediately waved both hands over her head, the light of the cell phone shining in welcome.

When it buzzed in her hands and she saw the two previously missed texts from Harper and Christa. Penelope lowered her hands and sent them each a text back via the group message, hoping to gather them closer along with the others. Whether powered or not, the dark-haired girl believed strongly in safety in numbers and, especially, in her friends. Alone, she could do little, but when together... somehow her meager efforts felt as though they had meaning



Motioning to the two already beside her (Adrian and Danica), Penelope gave a shake of her head. "We were just having a... um... conversation, and then those creatures appeared. They didn't seem to hurt us but... I don't know, it's suspicious, isn't it?"

Then she realized that neither of her friends had made specific mention of the rabbits and that they didn't know everyone around them. The normally discrete girl flushed for the seemingly thousandth time that night. If she kept this up, her face was going to stay that way permanently! Maybe it was best for her to stay quiet, for now, until the others arrived.

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The Guardian Cat got a little jealous whenever the cellphone appeared, but she did her best to quiet her friend's fears. How else was better than purring and cuddles as the hands that should have been petting or playing with her sent a text to whoever it was that she felt she needed to text.

Horatio took her last couple of pets wth a pitiful mewl, but her mood instantly brightened at the request for information. Orah wanted her to play a game of Detective? Sure, the kitty could do that! "Okay, I'll go and listen to all the people and not talk to any who aren't winners like you, okay? Have fun!"

With that, she was off with a sprint! Detective Horatio would get to the bottom of this, one way or the other... and who knew what her prize might be?!

"Strange doesn't cover the half of it. We've had a mass coma, an damn organ ring... mass kidnapping... and that's just the big stuff. I can't imagine we're much of a tourist destination these days."

Hell thinking about it he was surprised the entire city hadn't collapsed into a financial ruin. People were amazingly stubborn he guessed, which was in it's own way impressive. Hell it almost seemed as though Destiny City had chosen to thrive not in spite of, but because of it's 'terrorists'.

"That sounds like a terrible review. Really things have been...mostly quiet for a while I guess. This is the first bit of really in your face weird for a while."

He rubbed the nape of his neck, partially embarrassed for such an odd conversation, partially because, although he felt.. well he was pretty sure he was fine... he couldn't quite get the hairs on the back of his neck to stand down from attention. It had all been too strange, even for what he knew.

Qiuyue blinked a few times at Falco's account, genuinely surprised by it as she shifted her gaze to regard the crowd of people around them. "Probably not. But the city seems to be thriving well enough without a mass efflux of people because of all that?" The infrastructure and the people made Destiny City look ordinary really, unlike some other cities that people might choose to avoid settling in for various reasons such as crime rate and stuff.

"Nothing beats hearing about something from a local really. I won't claim to be an expert on the matter but I'm sure that other places have their fair share of strange occurrences if you dig hard enough." She shook her head, not at all intending to let what he had shared affect her impression of the city by far. This was to be her new home and she was pretty optimistic that she would be able to stay on top of whatever strange events that happened to come her way such as the recent thing with the winged rabbits. Whatever that was supposed to mean for all of them.

"So... watcha gonna do for the rest of the evening?" Enough with the odd conversation for now though, she had to go get her hands on a moon pie and check out the stalls to see what other gem she might have the fortune of stumbling upon. No point standing around and speculating over those winged rabbits!

"Yeah....seems like it." He didn't for one single moment believe what Xander said, he just hoped Xander believed such nonsense. Alexandre knew better though, how could he not? He had seen enough odd and magical things go on in this city to know this was not something normal - mundane .He didn't ask though, even if he did want to, as he didn't wish to bring up the topic of terrorists with his family.

Attention turned to Lily and he bobbed his head. "Sounds like a busy schedule. We'll have to arrange a time for you to come by - or you can invite yourself in and I'll be home when I'm home." Rather then text, or write down, each others schedules and try and organize some free time. It wasn't like she didn't have a key, she had lived there once as well, and he was fairly sure she hadn't thrown the key away or lost it somewhere or other. Lily was as organized as he was so the key being lost was highly unlikely. Why she hadn't invited herself over yet was beyond him - honestly.

"I've met her - and she has good taste. It fits our brother well; it does bring out his good looks more." He hadn't meant to insult Xander, if he had, but Xander didn't focus on fashion like he and other people did. It simply wasn't Xander's thing and so while Alex stated such things without harm intended he could have insulted him with the fact stating; something he didn't even think about though.

"I know Xander...trust me I do." He said smiling up at the other. "But Lily is right. You should, every so often, wear something a bit different. I'm sure Phina, knowing her and her flirtatious ways, was aiming to have you attracting as many females as possible." And she had succeeded for sure, the outfit looked good on him. "Which isn't a bad thing - it's good in fact." He added after a moment before bobbing his head up and down twice. "It is really that nice and Lily's right; I bet there would be a good hat to go with it. You can let your hair down then and show off a bit more - you certainly deserve it." And now he moved forward to grab both Lily and Xander's hand. "Which means we are heading in there for a hat and an outfit, or two, for me." And he aimed to tug them both right into the shop, intent on spending some money.

"Rubberneck? Fried dough?" She started to look a little puzzled by Falco's words, not quite able to follow his train of thoughts with the jargon that she was unfamiliar with despite her own command of the mainstream English language. Marshmallow and chocolate huh? Just one moon pie as a sampler for the sake of novelty would do nicely for her then. She would want to leave some space in her tummy for any other thing she might come across among the stalls out there.

Nodding at his question, she smiled sheepishly and bowed slightly while she supplied him with a brief self introduction. "Yeah. I'm from Taiwan. Name's Qiuyue." It wasn't as if she had anything to hide on this aspect of herself after all.