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Natsuki merely watched the stage with tredipation. Unlike her years upon the stage, she wansn't selling an image or a character, but herself. As more people swarmed toward the staging area, a growing sense of dread mounted within her. What if no one bid on her? That would be a nice kick to the ego. She tried maintaining her composure, but it was no secret she was rather... distracted.

It wasn't until We'rika, bless him, plunged a rose at her, that Natsuki was yanked free from her mindset. She smiled meekly, feeling a bit terrible for ignoring him, and rather surprised to hear him speaking so cleaning to her. "It's beautiful, We'rika," she said gently, taking the rose from him and sniffing it deeply. Giving him a more familiar, classic smile, and in turn complimented him, "You clean up nicely, yourself. We'rika. You look downright respectable and gentlemany."

The woman watched the cat-dragon as he sprawled out on her booth, making her laugh at just how cute he looked. Alex carefully placed the wet portion of the towel over her fingers, gently but swiftly cleaning the animal's fur before it could dry in the high sun. A few quick motions with the wet towel, followed by a more delicate touch with the dry towel, ensuring that he was clean and wouldn't fluff out that pretty fur of his.

All this motion on the booth had awoken the Gwee, and he was none too pleased to see his human bathing some other creature. The little dragonette uttered an indignant chirp, causing Alex to look over at him. "Good morning sleeping beauty," she smiled wryly at Lorenzo as she finished with the cat, giving the black critter a few good pets down the length of his body, careful not to pull his wings. This, of course, made the poor little dragon extremely jealous. The Gwee leapt from the booth onto Alex's shoulder, then off again towards the shade of the tree he had previously been sleeping under. There, he stared at the woman with his large red eyes.

"Zoe, be nice," the woman rolled her eyes, "I'll give you a treat later if you just mind yourself." Immediately passifying the Gwee with promises of sweets, she cocked her head to the side to get a better look at the cat. He was obviously intelligent, although how he became drenched in such condiments was beyond her; was her feral, or did he belong to someone? Alex pulled up the chair that went with her booth, lounging back in it to regard the feline with a curious gaze. "Now that you're looking quite stunning, what can I do for you?" While most people would have felt funny speaking to animals, the Italian was quite used to it; in fact, she had found that most creatures were more inclined to answer positively than humans.

Then again, perhaps she really was just that inept at interacting.

Shuura was debating whether or not she wanted to use her real name when an idea struck her. "My name is Lemon,", she replied, a saccharine smile adorning her face. "I really shouldn't leave the booth since I could be called up to the stage at anytime, but do feel free to go off and look around. If you don't find me later, I work at the Cafe Jubilee in Gambino. Pleased to meet you, sir." He was definitely a bit too young for her to be calling him "sir", but, she'd likely not see him again if he wasn't interested and he'd likely earn her a good bit of profit if he was. So, she dropped him small curtsy and handed him one of the Cafe Jubilee business cards. "Have fun," she called after him obligatorily.


Vyn considered the name, rosy head tilted slightly to the side as she tried it out. "Sev...lin." she repeated, having a bit of difficulty with the second syllable.

A slight frown marred the Frei's delicate features when We`rika rushed by and grabbed some of the roses. Vyn wanted to tell them it was no use to take the dying flowers. Why did people want them? She did not understand. They would soon wilt.

A delicate sigh escaped through the Rose Raevan's lips as she floated quietly behind the booth as Sevilin helped some other walkers. She wanted to do something about these flowers, but they were already sitting in pools of water, so she couldn't give them more. And the water didn't seem to be helping, either. She carefully picked out a thin stalk covered with tiny star-shaped buds from a bucket to her right--a sprig of baby's breath--and lifted it up to examine it. Full rosy lips tightened into a thin line as the Shadow Frei shook her head softly. No good. These would not do. And all of them felt unnatural. They were cut off from the earth. She paused.

Maybe if she put them back into the earth, they would stop dying? With this thought, the gentle Frei floated out of the booth for a few moments, then drifted closer to the ground near a red-headed walker who Sevilin was now greeting. There. There was a patch of ground next to the walker-person's shoes seemed like a good place. Bending over, Vyn vainly tried to stuff the stalk back into the ground.

Ravi blanched a tad when the unknown, bluish Raevan called him out. He felt the urge to say, "Who, me?" but the answer would have been too obvious even for his lack of social skills. No one else around here was as tall as he was, anyway.

He blushed when the Raevan patted his head. What could he say? The gesture was unbearably cute, and a mere poke could send the prudish man into a state of burning ears easily, if well-placed. "What's your name?" he asked. Ravi was unwilling to take his eyes from the Raevan just to pick out a flower.

So enraptured was he by the Raevan before him that he failed to notice the other Raevan below him, bending down at his feet with some flowers in tow. That was until, of course, he felt a strange, soft spattering on the tops of his shoes. Looking down, he saw a severed body - no wait, oh God, it was another Raevan - digging up the dirt at his feet. The Raevan was female, and though she was hunched over, Ravi could distinguish the elegance that seemed present in all Raevans, regardless of soul, or fel essence, or whatever it was that composed them. "Wh-what are you doing?" he asked, trying to be civil. Frankly, he was more surprised than anything. Embarrassing as it was, Raevans could still surprise him. He was chilled now instead of flushing; he'd thought he'd seen a ghost.

To the average person it had looked like Niksia was sitting on the grass sunning herself, pale skinned face tilted toward the sky, but she'd actually fallen asleep sitting up. Her ability to sleep without shifting her pose was astonishing, but she'd likely pay for it later. Amber colored eyes blinking, she stared up at the sun and realized that she'd napped without intending to.

It was too nice, too happy, too friendly. She felt like she was slacking off as she raised herself up and dusted her trousers off. The heat had made her relaxed, her pose a little different now that she had time to shift away from her normal mindset. People made her nervous, crowds were teeth gritting but it was easy to put your mind away and drift along. If only that Raevan at the stall knew...

The announcement for the Date Auction jarred her, what crazy person felt the need to deafen a whole crowd like that? Well, it was better than going to the food and drink stall again, she wasn't ready to play with Rivener again just yet.

Apparently quite a few people had the same idea, a gathering around the auction stall was there and looking at the first offering already. Lick your lips folks, it'll complete the image. The orange haired man stood, looking well equipped to handle the yet to bay crowd. Shame his clothes looked a little rumbled, but was that really shocking in the heat?

Niksia looked up like all the rest, though the balloon bobbing from her shoulder ruined the image a little.

There were plenty of people crowded around the refreshment booth, but Gage's dedication to his cause had him pushing through the cluster in order to gain access to the two Raevans manning the station. Fortuitously, the amount of people attempting to purchase desserts and drink thinned out as an obnoxiously loud voice announced Julian was the first date to be formally auctioned. Of all the things Gage did not understand, the ability to purchase another person and not even be allowed to keep them was near the top of the list. The first item was how exactly he was supposed to speak with Vyn and ask her to return to Shuura's side when she was bound to take no notice of him in the first place.

In such a situation, even an introverted individual such as the radioactive Frei was in dire need of assistance.

"Lazsus, River, how do I talk to girls?" Gage asked loudly as he slammed his hands palms down on the booth's countertop. While he had not exactly meant to slur the other Raevans' names, or interrupt the humanoids they were speaking to, sometimes sacrifices were necessary in the war to obliterate timid behavior. "Shuu-ra wants me to talk to Vyn and I do not know what to say! And I can not remember the drink she wanted!"

Heading towards the ice cream booth Namini nearly fainted as she witnessed a woman basically falling atop of a Raevan. A camera had been hanging from her neck wildly and Namini believed for a moment that it would somehow fall and shatter the camera lenses. Wanting to rush over and assist in some way or another, or better yet, prevent an unwanted event, she caught herself seeing as how the Raevan was already handling the situation with ease. She felt a small blush creep onto her features as her eyes lingered on the Raevan's face. He was what she considered..beautiful? no..untouchable. With golden skin and hair that blended silver and ruby strands, she felt a wave of nervousness fill her as she watched him enter the ice cream booth as the attendant.

Just..calm down! Smile and just..calm down! Gosh! You're always so easily frightened.." she told herself, pouting a bit. Tightening her grip on her parasole, Namini was about to walk up to the food booth when a lime green Raevan floated forwards and struck the countertop. She took a step back as she noted his interesting markings, mechanical wings, and..brilliant unicorn horn. Leaning forwards a bit, she felt awkward trying to eavesdrop without being noticed. That's when she overheard an odd question which made her blush out of uncertainty,

"..how do I talk to girls?"

Josh came back to a normal stride along side Alice. Her abnormal height did put a bit of a damper on following her, but Josh enjoyed the fact that the quick pace was giving him a work out. Josh pulled out a teasing tone of his own, “Why yes, I did! Do I get a reward of some sort now?” He gave a slight chuckle and continued on with the discussion enthusiastically. Josh stopped before the rather large stage set up in a grassy clearing. It was adorned with the usual gaudy streamers and confetti littered about. “So you are a mix of two creatures then? How amazing!” The boy was almost about to reach out and touch the tickled pink tentacle offered to him until it was bobbed uselessly away. Josh gave out a disgruntled sigh. Alice may have had to keep an eye more on the straying hands of Josh than of her tentacles.