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" . . . . " Lowe didn't reply to Julio, nor did he reply to Heidi's complaints. He'd been off a bit when he'd been randomly hugged by a passing woman, and his cheeks were still a little red from that. It took him a moment or two to finally find words to say in regards to bumping. "Oops."

That wasn't a 'sorry' or a 'my bad' or an 'OKAY I WILL TRY HARDER'. Just an oops, and they'd better be grateful he said something at all. Lowe didn't really feel like bumping into them was really his fault since they'd stopped in the middle of the hallway and Lowe's face slipped into a minor frown over it all.

Maybe it would be best to say sorry anyway because well he wasn't ready for a fight just yet. He needed to save it up and pay attention, not to mention he needed to hit up other places around here soon. He'd left something a while back and was interested to see if it was still there. "....I'm sorry. May I get pass you two, or....?"

Bouncing, bouncing, bouncing, JULIO! She heard him screaming off towards him, and stopped bouncing on someone's bed (whose room was this, anyway?) before jumping back out to the hallway, and looking up as she passed all the others. At least some of the group didn't seem too uptight - if this had been one of those quiet, mournful, 'we're all gonna die' missions, she would have been seriously bummed out.

Speaking of bummed out, she saw a familiar brooding face trying to make his way through the crowd without being detected. She craned her head to make sure that her bag hadn't been tampered with where she left it at the end of the hall, before stealthily creeping up behind Caelius, and climbing up onto his back. It was a hard process, because Cael never liked when women crawled up on his back (let's face it, who else did things like that anyway?) but she was up above his shoulders in a minute regardless, and taking in the view with a blissful smile.

They all looked so beautiful from up here. She waved her fingers playfully at Julio, from her perch on Caelius.

"Hola, Julito~" She sing-songed, while clinging to Cael's neck. Flirting with one guy while hanging off another? That was just how Em rolled.

"I guess that's true. Never know if we'll see tomorrow, hm?" Heidi gave Julio a sidelong glance, looking quite unimpressed. A woman's love scorned that still remained partially unhealed, apparently. "Of course. I did also only just get back, my room's got dust all over it I didn't exactly feel like settling into a dusty bed." She shrugged, watching him happily greet the woman who had come to him. Her lip quivered and her eyes narrowed, tightening her grip on the dagger's handle. Of course. Of course he was friendly with yet another woman. How many women did get friendly with, hm?

"Don't flatter yourself." Heidi muttered as she pushed off him again, taking in a deep breath to calm herself. She had been so good about staying away from him. This wasn't fair.

When the hunter that had run into them didn't give them much of a reply Heidi sighed and glanced Julio's way again. "Yeah sure, whatever. I was just leaving...I'll let you go get acquainted with your ladyfriend, Julio." Heidi muttered, turning to leave. She wanted to go see Liam anyway, not Julio. Pausing, she glanced discreetly over her shoulder, trying to make it appear as if she thought she'd dropped something.

...He didn't look bad considering it'd been months since she'd last seen him.

She sighed, ruffling her own hair.

Niabi grinned when Aki replied. "Oh good, it's not goo~lash." She said in a sing-song tone. Though there was a pause when the other called someone else an old hag. Niabi peered towards the 'hag', she didn't think the other looked like a hag.

"I've seen older hags." She accessed. As she hummed and watched everyone around them for a second.

"I'm Niabi!" She said suddenly as if she remembered she should probably introduce herself. "I'm in the mist division, what about you?"

"Because we have a mission. And it doesn't involve you." She turned her attention to the doorknob and tried to turn it. It didn't budge. Nico had probably since learned to keep his door shut if he didn't want Aki barging in suddenly. She felt a little guilty... Maybe she should let Nico get some rest. "You're a life hunter, you don't understand what it means to have a partner." She grumbled.

She glared at Flair and chose to ignore Niabi's comment about Flair's age. Though Aki didn't think Flair looked like a hag, she certainly had the personality of one. The black-haired hunter turned her attention towards Niabi,

"I'm Aki, Sun Division." She jerked her thumb over her shoulder towards Flair. "That's Flair, from Life. Don't let her fool you, she's got the demeanor of an old cat lady."

Jesus christ, had every Hunter in existence been called back for whatever this mission was going to be? Marsh flinched at the noise and chaos, unprepared for all of it after half a year of near-solitude. He ducked his head and headed down the hall at a rapid clip. Maybe it wouldn't be so noisy outside.

He wasn't really watching where he was going, and his shoulder collided with someone else - a guy he didn't recognize, wearing a very similar deer-in-the-headlights expression. "Sorry," he said. "Too many people. I'm going out for a walk."

Lowe mumbled a bit of thanks as Heidi moved out the way, his head bobbing a nod in the direction of Caelius. As a fellow Sun Hunter it was only polite to greet him but it looked as though the man was really busy and Lowe needed to eventually set his stuff down. Julio had moved as well and now the boy was off and towards his room....only remembered because it was the one closet to a garbage can. Lowe was glad to see that the dorms still had garbage cans.

Of course he was glad to see his room too because there was a necklace he wanted and then someone rammed into him again. There hadn't been this many people here the last time Lowe was around - were things getting different? "Oops."

Oops was his default. "Can I come along?"

That was his second setting.

"Sure, whatever, you look like you could use some air too." Marsh smiled tightly and kept going; the guy could follow him. Right now, he needed to decompress a little, and it sure wasn't happening in this crowd. Hah. Man, he'd got weird.

He had always been weird, Miyako put in primly.

"Oh, shut up, princess," he said, forgetting that it wouldn't be obvious that he was talking to the voice in his head. He'd gotten into the habit of talking to his weapon out loud, since there was nobody else in the outpost to look at him funny.