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Na'ima looked pleased by Belladonna's first question. She actually smiled sincerely. "My name is Na'ima, child. I would prefer to go by my name. I do not do nicknames, something I have reminded Hel of several times but she has continued to ignore."

When asked if she was sating Salbei she sighed and actually rolled her eyes. What was with scarelings and their obsession with dating? There was more to life than who was sucking face with who. "No, I am not dating him. He is my mentor, my teacher, my friend, my companion. He holds no romantic or lustful feelings toward me, nor do I feel that way toward him." She didn't sound terribly excited to be explaining this. It was ridiculous. Why did it matter? Why was this something that even needed to be questioned? Or discussed? This was all Hel's fault.

Hel started to tell Belladonna something but it was too quiet for her to hear. She narrowed her eyes at the Valkyrie. What was she up to now?

"Na'ima! What a wonderfully exotic name!" The witch chirped happily, giving her own genuine smile to the woman. Oh yes, they would be friends indeed. If she knew alchemy too, then she could teach Belladonna some and then she could know more about potions! Ah yes!
The smile fell a little a moment later, the witch going so far as to actually look incredulous over Na'ima's vehement denial of any involvement with Sal. That was... Protesting a bit much.
"Oh well... That is... Just fine of course. I was merely curious, my apologies." Another tilt of her head was given, along with a small smile before the witch tilted her head to Hel. A flutter of lashes was given before the ghoul leaned closer to her friend, not at all bothered by the others to conspiratorially whisper "Couches seem to be very popular nowdays... Especially yours! I think I might have to get one from you." Because yes.

Something was going to be said about walking over graves and how Belladonna wasn't so sure that someone walking over a zombie's grave worked the same way as a ghost's simply because the zombie had vacated the grave, but paused because first a loud Piper came squawking over. Smiling brightly at her little kouhai, Belladonna nodded along with what the fellow Reaper said untillll.....
With a large sigh, the witch slipped her hand out from Mort's arm to stick palm up and out at Piper, a sign that the ghoul should put her hand in the witch's. Fingers were bent in two quick motions and once the ghoul's hand was placed into the witch's, Mama Bells delivered two quick, sharp taps to Piper's hand before letting it go.
"There is a difference between hearing a rumor and starting one, but more importantly... Where did you get that Key Treat?" The witch's eyes focused on the thing in Piper's arms, sparkling mildly in a rather serious way.
"Oh. And this is my boilfriend Mort! Mort, this is Piper. She is my little bird friend. Isn't her hair so adorable?" And blue! The witch had an intense fondness for blue in other people and to show it, she smiled brightly at Piper as though she hadn't reprimanded her at all.

Hel gave the Horsewoman a look. "Uh, let me remind you, Na, that I used to call you Nanners, and you said that instead of that, I could call you Na." Hel then had the nerve to look rather smug. She leaned back towards Bella though as she whispered back, and grinned and then laughed. "Oh, I do not know if that would help, but maybe, eh?" She didn't bother whispering that...and it's not like anyone could figure out what they were talking about before hand anyways.

The reaper was about to say something to Mort...until that annoying little blue haired tweeny pop wanna-be barged right in. Hel was about to tell her to make like a tree and leave...until Piper said some magical words which helped to inflate Hel's ego. Well, she supposed she could stay for now then. She tilted her chin up and haughtily placed her hands on her hips. "Ya, I was! I appreciate that you noticed! I was carrying that team...and no one else could keep up!"

Clearly it wasn't her fault they lost...it was everyone else's.

I'M PINNING THE TAIL STICKER ON THE SHUN
[Enters]

Walking up to the booth, Sulmanon arrived shortly after the boil that she remembered as the one that the one reaper ghoul had wanted to try to stick something on. Trying to sneak up behind him, she tripped and stumbled over a rock, making enough noise that he immediately saw her. Too bad, she'd have to try again later.

FOLLOWING THE LEADER, THE LEADER...

Steeling herself in determination, Kari walked up to the area containing the gnomes and stared them down.

"Alright, I know some of you may have a problem with listening to me and may not think I'm worth the time, but I'd really like to be able to successfully complete this task", Kari stated, "but I can't do that if you refuse to listen. So for once, could one of you please try to cooperate with me?"

Kari took it as a good sign when one gnome separated themselves from the group. Setting out, her confidence grew as she successfully led it past the log and under the branch. The hurdles were unfortunately too high for the gnome to scale, but it was able to cross the steeping stones without any problem.

"Alright, now that's what I call some good teamwork!", Kari cheered.

Seeing if she couldn't trick him, Sulmanon tried to make him lose track of her by flying up high, but that did not work.

"Oh, so we get to catch you now?"

Having wandered over to see what was happening, the monster ghoul saw that instead of shadows, they were catching a student this time. She wasted no time in chasing after the reaper, but could not match Sparrows superior speed.

She made a mental note to ask Shun if he knew the boil later.