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Kurai facefaulted a bit after the first sip. "ehh.. A bit too strong in my opnion..." Kurai told himself as Tale watched Kurai's expression carefully. Tale then brought her two hands up to her face. She then looked at each flavor with care. Soon she took the lime flavoured energy drink carefully from the counter and began to struggle with the top.

"ehh..." She said upsetingly giving up her attempts to open it. Kurai looked at the energy drink and chuckled. "Like this Tale.." He said and took the drink from Tale. He then poped the top with ease and then gave it to her. "there you go." Kurai said happily. Tale looked at the drink and then sniffed it with care before gingerly bringing it up to her lips. She tipped it very carfully and slowly let the liquid come down into her.

She immediatly brought it away from her and facefaulted almost like Kurai. "Ahh! Strong!" She said with a suprised expression. Kurai chuckled at the face she made and Tale held the bottle away from her looking at it with a rather evil glare. "What kind of person would like these?!"

Hedoro had been walking along inside of the writhing throng of festival goers, trying to avoid being jostled and harried too much. Even so, she still got pushed, shoved, and likely groped several times already, and was sorely in need of a break. So it was with no small degree of relief that she saw a stall advertising free energy drinks ahead and to the left.
Dodging a few obstacles, namely hapless bystanders, she made her way closer to the stand. When she finally stood in front of it, someone wearing a smile precisely three shades to white sparkled a grin at her, and launched into an obvious spiel on the benefits of the above-mentioned energy drink. Reading between the lines, Hedoro basically heard 'It's good, you'll go crazy! EXTREME! Yummy goodness in a bottle for the extreme person on the go! EXTREME DRINK!' and generic phrases that were various shades thereof.
When the vendor stopped to catch his breath, she took the opportunity to choose a flavor and get away. She opted for cranberry, something that would hopefully soothe her slightly sore mood and replenish some of her fluids. This much exposure to normal humans and all the heat they generated had literally started to dry her out, her surface felt like it was just starting to get flaky, and her resiliency was crippled.
Picking up the small bottle, she moved to an empty bench and sat down. Taking the opportunity to relieve some of the strain on her legs, she reformed her body to something more akin to a legless form, most of her lower appendages being absorbed into her torso, with her empty pant legs hanging off the edge of the bench. She carefully opened her scarf a little, just enough to allow her to drink, and opened the bottle. Almost instantly, she was hit with a slightly heady and overpowering scent of cranberry. Once she regained her composure, she took a sip, finding it surprisingly tasty, although the added ingredients made the berry taste slightly muted. It wasn't bad, so she took a moment longer to polish it off, feeling the fluid spread throughout her.
She knew from experience that her substance was likely going to look a little odd, a disturbing shade of maroon as the cranberry juice was absorbed. But as long as noone saw it, it should be alright, it'd pass long before she planned to let anybody see what hid beneath the multiple layers of clothes she wore. Setting the now-empty bottle in a nearby recycling receptacle, she stood up, ready to resume her wandering.

"Alright, very cute. Happy?"
What Nika said next made Hedoro panic a little. 'you're even a girl'?! Did she see through her disguise?! Hedoro checked her outfit, it was still snug and completely covering as it'd always been. So she hadn't seen her slip up, was it a lucky guess? Was she saying it as a joke? It was hard to tell, but she'd have to be careful.
"I'm not here to judge. If that's what tickles your fancy, who am I to pass judgement. Sure, let's get out of here, it's getting crowded."
Crowded was a bit of an understatement. The crowd was rather big, but it had just scattered after seeing an enormous dragon made of fire launch high into the sky. This made Hedoro nervous, fire dried her out really bad, if she stuck around she'd likely have some trouble.
Even if it seemed forward, she reached over and grabbed Nika's hand, leading her out into the festival. Right now she was more concerned with getting away from the source of fire than realizing she'd just held hands with a girl who was flirting with her.

Finsihing her drink, she looked around at the people, not really recognizing anyone. She found this to be odd, yet perfectly logical, yet confusing all at once as she could feel herself beginning to go mad. She took in a deep breath, reminding herself that this would soon come to pass and she'd be back to a more usual day-to-day lifestyle. Hopefully. Standing up, she made her way out of here.