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"Well..." he said, rubbing the back of his neck and looking about nervously, wondering why she was letting him choose. He hoped he'd choose right. Was there a right, or was she really impartial and asking his opinion? It was all confusing, dealing with people, and now he was even more self concious than normal. "How about the ocean?" He said as casually as he could manage right now, suddenly remembering to make eye contact. "I sorta have this thing for water, hard to explain, but I've never seen an ocean before."

"Alright, that sounds fine. If it's a bit of a travel, shall we get stated now?" He asked, and stopped to consider the last part of her question with a somewhat pensive frown. "No... I cannot fly. Why? Do you have some means of transportation in mind or just..." He felt rude asking, but he didn't really understand where the question had come from, and it was too late to take it back now. So far as he knew, it would be rather odd if he could fly, but then again, how ordinary was he?

"That's fine. I'm not too hungry really, so that's not a worry either." He said, wondering what else she'd had in mind. He stood thoughtfully for a moment, and then uncertainly offered her his hand like before. "Shall we get going then?" He asked, trying to figure out what he should do as he went. If he wasn't mistaken, a date wasn't just a friendly thing... it would usually have some romantic or sexual implications. That was the part making him most uncomfortable. Rivven wondered how he'd cope with it if either of those came up...

((Ah! There's the post, it's right there, and I can't believe I've been doing all this stuff trying to find it. I hate my computer. Shall I make the next post elsewhere, say the wilderness, since you said we'd be travelling past there, or straight to the ocean?))

Rivven stopped outside the gate this time. He didn't think he wanted to risk the gaurdian, though he didn't like the idea of making her come out to him, he felt like he should go in to Morgan. Of course, he wasn't sure this was what she had meant by the castle... she could have meant the Kimache castle, but this place certainly looked enough like one, and he thought it more likely she'd be here if she taught here, than that she'd be there. He really hoped he was correct. There was still that hole in his shirt, but he was cleaned of the blood, and refreshed from the stop at the hotsprings before stopping by his room to put his knife away and comb his hair again. It felt a bit unnatural to have it neatly combed, but he thought he might as well leave it, though he no longer felt that worry of how formal the date would be. He'd forgotten to sharpen his knife that morning. That's what he'd been forgetting. He sighed, smiling faintly as he waited for her to come out. It was probably almost an hour earlier than he'd come the other night, but that night had passed so fast, and he wanted this to last. He'd wanted that to last, but he was thinking too much again. He seemed to be doing that a lot lately.

Rivven looked up when he heard Morgan's voice, and smiled brightly, tucking his hands into his pockets to wait for her to come out. It was odd how just her voice had made him happy, but he knew something had been odd about himself all day. All day, she'd been stuck in his head, and it was odd how while thought of Morgan made him feel happy, almost to the point of giddiness at times, she also somehow seemed to calm him at the same time. It was difficult to undestand in his head exactly how that worked, but he just tried not to while he waited.

Rivven waited a moment, cautious of the earlier warned of gaurdian, and then came in a little to greet her as she came out to him. "How've you been?" he said, not stopping himself from smiling brightly as they met each other halfway. He wasn't sure what sort of conversation they were supposed to have, or even what their relationship was considered, though he thought beyond just friendship surely, but that seemed a safe way to start anything. He was surprised when he, just like the night before, noticed how she looked rather than just what she was doing. She didn't look any less beautiful in this, though he couldn't care less what she looked like, really.

Rivven blushed slightly, and took one of her hands in either of his, bending down a little to kiss her cheek as well. "Don't worry about it, nothing wrong with that. Yesterday you'd seemed intersted in going to the woods, so I'm fine with that if you'd still like to, but otherwise I have no idea. Again." He said, smiling a bit sheepishly. "What's the trip you have to take? I'm not getting in the way of something important, am I?" He'd actually been hoping she'd say she'd spent much of her time thinking of him. Perhaps it was a bit conceited to hope for it... but he had been thinking of her most of the day, just over and over, and he wanted something to say that was alright, that there was nothing wrong with him. He also would've just liked it for its own sake though.