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Ray looked from Yuri, who gave a first impression of the event, toward Luke, who had chose to elaborate.
She listened, though the bitterness in his tone was not lost on the older women. "Hm." She hummed, sounding interested. "I guess Grant Ile traditions are different, Man! Pretty much everything happens at 20 huh, even marriage? you really have to wait till you're twenty to even get married. Thats like the strangest restricts ever, no slow progression of privileges just BAM! get drunk get married and gamble to win money, or you know... lose it all and then sign off on all kinds of stuff, proooobably the divorce papers or bankruptcy! ALL IN ONE NIGHT, man that must be one hell of a party. Grand Ile suddenly sounds like a great place to explore, wish I would have turned twenty there. Though the lack of a pokemon community might dampen that."

The subject moved toward Sera, leaving the women to consider Yuri's question before Luke volunteered
"Hmmm, sure, she hasn't taken a swing at me yet, but I don't fancy getting clogged tonight. I imagine she would hold back better for you."

Ray's evaluation of his explanation was received with some surprise as she talked her way through an entire scenario. That was probably… kind of an extreme example, but hell, Luke had never seen one such party so how should he know. "How does it usually work?" Grande Ile's ways seemed reasonable enough to him, but that was probably because it was the culture in which he had been immersed for the vast majority of his life.

At the go-ahead, he moved to stand, ignoring the complaints of his feet, and crouched beside Seraphine, jostling her shoulder lightly and speaking in a light tone, "Sera, you hungry? Dinner's ready."

Though her positioning was much more conducive to a light nap than full sleep, the exhaustion she suffered from after the day's long travels had left any chance of light sleep way back in Camphoreon. Thus, the voices had not bothered her even a little, and Luke's voice had little to no effect whatsoever. Him lightly shaking her shoulder, however, garnered an actual reaction in a slight shift in posture to curl in on herself more, and a prolonged groan that started out very soft and ended at normal tones, and sounded like a combination of tired, displeased, exhausted, and confused. Though she squeezed her eyes shut more, she opened them after a few seconds and rubbed at them, except she hadn't internalized a single word of what Luke said, and thus had no idea what he was waking her up for. "Mmn.. what..?"

Jacques, however, wasn't nearly too asleep to understand the implications of food, and he woke much more readily.

More pointed groaning, and then Seraphine had pushed herself up into a sitting, albeit slouched, position. Even though she wasn't fully awake, she still recognized the fact that she had been wanting to eat for a while, and now she finally would be able to, so she responded with a quiet, "Yeah."

Ray watched as Luke managed to wake Sera up, and guide her, half asleep over to the fire to get something to eat.
She wore an amused expression, tough not one of mocking. It was the girls first time out after all, She would get used to it. Ohhhh how she would have to get used to it.

"We should reach the city by tomorrow night." Ray said, setting her empty plate aside and laying back in the grass again, Double Stripe draping his neck over her middle.
"ooooff- DS... you're heavy." She commented, but laid a hand on the snake's head.

"The dead are walking," Yuri teased lightly as Sera came over to join them, handing her a plate.

He then got his own and started to eat as well, although not without throwing a few words at Luke.

"So Luke, how is it? I put a lot of work into that you know." Although really it hadn't been hard at all. Merely a reminder that the boy needed to eat. He knew stalling when he saw it.

Luke returned to his place near the sleeping Mieu, who stretched and repositioned slightly as he sensed the movement nearby but did not wake. He recovered the mostly whole meal from where he left it, resting the plate on his knee and attempting to disregard the mental complaints of his absence of hunger. He silenced a sigh in response to Yuri's comment, replying with a weary "it's good." He got it already, jeez.

Emboldened by frustration, Luke for once took an initiative in conversation towards the end of changing the subject, "Ray, you're good with pokemon, right?" Or at least, she seemed to like them more than the average person. Mieu hadn't exactly warmed to her, but she hardly seemed put off.