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Seeing that she was still wearing the same thing as before, he looked vastly uncomfortable and looked away at once. THis... was seriously getting on his nerves. Twice he had appeared before this woman in various states of undress and he was rather proper minded in things like this. Hayaharu's howling frightened Reika and Yue, who huddled together, the Elysian's eyes huge on her little face as the Geisha hurried past Koni and then up the stairs. Seems it was time for her bath finally.

His ears flattened in irritation as he sat down in a chair close by Reika, stroking the top of her hair to show her it would truly be all right. Sooner or later. Why it really going to be this difficult to just find out more information about Shoichi? Geez. As Chu returned, he gave her a careful look before he nodded finally. "Aye.. tea will do fine. And perhaps a bite to eat?" He was starving and he knew Reika only had a little snack so she had to be as well. Yue.. well, Yue was always hungry.

Quinn trotted quickly across the choppy waters, her chocobo 'Wark'-ing in consternation at being out in this weather the entire way. She was deposited rather unceremoniously on the Gambino side of the ocean and her chocobo dashed into the barn, letting the door slam shut.

She stood, tapping her foot and swishing her tail impatiently, waiting for Therin and the rest of the group to make it over safely.

[hayaharu]

She wans't actually getting 'prettified', has she spent that long in doing such a thing she would have been up there fore hours. Rather, she was simply slipping on a loose fitting kimono of an emerald green with simple gold vines woven into it - alongside this she wore matching slippers and her hair was no more ornate than a long braid that reached to her waist.

Other than this, she made no attempt to apply any make-up and instead she simply gave a nod of satisfaction towards the mirror before descending the stairwell and once more entering the lounge where she soon reclined on one of the pillows with her eyes planted on the cup, seemingly thoughtful - what to do with her little maid, now there was a question.

"Forgive the dishonourable acts performed by my maid, she is a girl of few talents."

Rising up easily into the air like a helium filled ballon, Mirror and Therin flew against the rain and wind just a couple meters above the churning waters of the pass. He didn't want to be too far up in case of lightning and he didn't want to fly too low in case of large waves. So he stayed a little under the middle.

For Mirror he could feel his mind tiring as they travelled across the waters and it almost seemed to take forever. But soon enough, the bright lights of Gambino soon blazed in his goggled eyes and he scavenged the shore with his sight for Quinn and the others.

Um...Not there...Not there...There! There she was. Mirror gave a tiring smile and descended gently to the sandy ground. Therin was let down upon the ground, his fur dripping wet, and Mirror had just let himself fall from the sky and to the group once he was a couple feet away from he ground.

Landing with clumsy footing, the Al Sylian straightened himself up and began to rub his temples. The muscle on Therin weighed more than he thought! That creature was strong alright, a good companion for the druid.

Giving a smile, Mirror replied to Quinn, "Safe landing, m'am."

[Koniryu]

"I dinnae like them much anyway, so ye have nothing to worry about when it comes to oysters." Though he seemed a bit amused at the warning, taking another sip of his tea, a smirk twitching his lips. The maid was so asking for more trouble than she would know how to dig herself out of later. It made him wonder how on earth she would wish to do something like that. "I am pleased to hear ye are feeling that way... and aye, i am feeling rather refreshed now that I'm warm and not chilled and wet."

His nose wrinkled a bit in distaste before he looked over at the maid as she headed out in a hurry with Hayaharu's stare. "Some dinnae know when to quit, I suppose..."

"WARK!" The blue chocobo nearly tripped over a whitecap, wings flaring to the side as he tried to keep his footing on the wildly uneven water. Odilen huddled on the bird's back, her arms wrapped tightly around the two familiars and the reins as well. "Come on, you can do it!" she urged the blue chocobo.

"Kweh..." The chocobo lowered his head and charged forward, leaping in great strides, jumping waves and side-slipping down the crests of foam until, finally, the beach was ahead of them.

"Oh, thank goodness," Odilen said under her breath as the bird's feet hit sand. "Thank you so much!" she added, much louder, getting off the chocobo with wobbly legs, patting it profusely on the beak. She put BoCo and Spark down (the familiars immediately darted to shelter under her cloak and skirts gain) and fumbled a large handful of damp greens from her pouch.

"Kweh!" The chocobo gobbled them eagerly, then walked up the beack to curl among some bushes, obvoiusly not interested in going back to the tavern just yet. It had waterproof feathers, it'd be fine.

Odilen adjusted her cloak again, smoothing the waterproof fabric down, then ran to join the others. "Let's hurry before we all drown in our boots!"

Mirror turned his wet face to Akiya and tiredly grinned up at the big man. Looking at the Al Sylian, anyone could tell that the little body was partially drained...Mirror was wobbling a bit on his feet on the sand.

No one really knew...But Mirror had a deathly fear against bodies of water. (Which was one of the reasons why he was stranded at Turtle's Paradise.) But because of the urgency of the situation, the Al Sylian forced himself across. Shaking slightly, Mirror was glad that he was wearing goggles otherwise the others might see the fear in his eyes.

"Akiya!" Mirror drawled in a dizzy manner, "Who's left in getting here?"