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She had waited a few moments after Mengyao had left, only to say hello to Lan, whom she had seen come around just as the first noble left. "Glad to see you come around, maybe you can watch over the group." She murmured to her softly, before receiving a strange necklace. Whatever it was, it looked a little tacky.

Turning to the large group, she gave them a little bow, before waving and following the taller noble finally. It didn't take long for her to catch up with him, slowing down to walk at his side again as he went to investigate the little tree. Tilting her head a little, she peered at it also.

"Does not appear to be very fruitful, but I suppose that is not always the case." She murmured softly to him, tilting her head the other way softly.

Okay, time to make the rounds…who to start with, who to start with…

Oh yes.

Hel appeared behind Lottie, and gave the ghoul a noogie. “Happy New Year.” She hissed with a wicked grin before she disappeared into the crowd again.

Next, Hel just barged into the little gathering of creeple Brenley had around him, and leaned in to give the boil a sloppy kiss on the cheek. “Happy New Year!” She cried with a grin, and then skittered away.

The ghoul then popped up to to Piper, and stuck her arm into her fro to plant her hand on her head and…pat it. “Happy New Year!” She then waved to Kettil and Freya and blew them both kisses before she was off again.

Hel swept by Belladonna, and planted a kiss on the ghoul’s cheek and hugged her tightly before quickly releasing her. “Happy New Year!”

Noticing Shun was still here as well, Hel swept over to the grim…and give him a sloppy kiss on the cheek too “Happy New Year!” and then quickly launched herself back into the crowd before he could slit her throat.

Then, Hel was looking forward to this one. The reaper sidled right up to Amrita with a wicked grin, because it was troll time. Hel wrapped her arms around the undead’s waist and then planted a firm kiss against the corner of her mouth. She was then quick to release her, grinning like a fiend. “Happy New Year~” The ghoul then shot off into the crowd.

As for anyone else Hel knew, she was delivering cheek kisses and Happy New Years…EXCEPT FOR ALEX! BECAUSE HE WAS THE WORST PERSON EVER AND DIDN'T DESERVE ANYTHING FROM HEL FOR GETTING MARRIED AND STUFF AND CLAIMING TO BE SALBEI'S FAVORITE Alex just got a very unhappy look and a glare with a mouthed promise of a fiery demise soon as she crashed his future wedding and then she was out, to go spend the last few hours of the year with someone grumpy.

[EXIT]

Of course it was to be spying! Like she would do something so ridiculously corny...

It was fun to look at what other people were writing, though. Well, sort of. Most of the ones that she was fully able to see were honestly a little boring. There wasn't much of anything of juicy note on there. People wanted to make friends... yeah, so did she. Some wanted to graduate--yeah, so would she, eventually. This was decidedly lame. She glanced over to Brenley to ask him if he was seeing anything, but instead, saw him pick up a piece of paper. Ah! She knew what he was going for.

Make it more interesting indeed. Serafina reached over to grab a piece of paper when she was suddenly winded by a shorter, busty woman running over and kissing Brenley on the cheek.

Her eyes lit up in amusement.

"She does seem a bit crazy," remarked Serafina, laughter in her voice. "Who was that?~" She scrawled something down on her piece of paper and put it up on the tree, leaving it loose much like Brenley left his.

From behind her, she heard some chatter, one voice familiar and one not. Was that Angeline? She glanced over her shoulder to see Angeline walking around with a ... tiny ... deer? In her direction? Serafina decided that maybe now was the right time to announce, "Angeline!" waving towards her and beckoning for her to come closer ... even if Angeline couldn't exactly see it. She turned back to Brenley and commented, "That's my friend Angeline." In case Brenley didn't get that hint...

Dear Wishing Tree:
I wish... I was a pretty pretty princess.
From: Serafina

"Pretty is in perspective," Sura agreed, though it was really a 'beauty in the eye of the beholder' sort of statement. Which was not any less true for her saying it. "Well, I would not laugh if you did, but..." she trailed off, Sura's real lack of care for color and fashion preceded her and thus her opinion was a little... tainted

The fact that it wasn't mandatory meant the party was infinitely more appealing, even to boils that could rarely be bothered to do anything. But there were promises of food and a giant television in front of which they could park themselves, so Efflo had agreed to go, not that Gabby had really asked. It was more like Gabby had agreed too, as if they both had seen the advertisements and been like sure why not.

That was exactly what had happened.

But there were added bonuses to the party, though Efflo had a hard time seeing dressing up as a bonus as he ambled next to Gabby, tugging at his neatly pressed dress shirt. He’d even given in and gone for his nicest pair of breeches, ones without any holes or discernible grass stains. Eventually he gave up, admitting defeat to Gabby’s attempts to clean him up, and looped his arm around the dragon’s, leaning against him affectionately instead.

Surely Gabby couldn’t worry about wrinkles if it was something like that that caused them.

“Do you think the food will be good?” he asked as they headed through the door.

Piper wasn't fessing up, but Freya was so busy taking selfies that she let the cousins squabble amongst themselves.. until she realized what she was seeing in one of the selfies she'd taken.

In the back of the picture, blowing kisses and saying goodbye to all of her friends.. was her sister.

Freya put down the phone, and turned to stare at her retreating form, slumping like jelly against Kettil's back. Her eyes turned round, and wet, and she shivered sadly.

Hel hadn't even come to her to say goodbye.

Kettil brightened up a little when Hel came by, but not much. He at least managed to smile and wave to farewell to her.

Then the clouds came back because Freya was sad and slumping against his back. Oops. Apparently Hel's goodbye for the evening was not satisfactory. Kettil was about to say something on the matter, pretty much ignoring Piper for the moment in favor of Freya, but Hel reappeared and landed a sloppy kiss on Freya (after a good swat).

"...That better?" He asked back at Freya with a small smile.

Apparently the rage and feeling of his privacy being violated lessened somewhat. Let his cousin be ... whatever she was doing.

"Wanna do something other than stand around and selfie?" He asked as he gave Hel a final wave.

"I LOVE YOU TOO!" Hel screamed from outside and was really, truly, gone after that.