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He had done his duty this night, and had found no time at all as the evening ticked on to it's final countdown to actually pay his fiance any proper amount of attention. He felt bad about it, but he was pretty sure Yin understood. After catching site of the boil during his part of the New Years speech, he kept eyes locked on him, turning off his microphone when his part was finished, and turning so that he could shuffle towards him.

He then tried to be really smooth and suave by flipping his microphone in the air to catch back in his hand, but fumbled it instead and nearly dropped it on the floor.

Woops....

Recovering himself with a cough in his free hand, he sidled on over to Yin and wrapped an arm around him to pull him in close, while grinning down at him. He caught that lost and nervous look in his bonded's eyes, and he chuckled a little before saying.

"We don't have to, you know. It's just a silly thing, a tradition." He had a quick glance around at all of the assorted couples or even non-couples kissing around the room, then back down to Yin. "You can save mine for later."

More grinning, with just a hint of mischievousness in his eyes.

Voodoo gave Shun a cat lick on the cheek. "Happy New Years grumpy-butt. Go have fun with your ghoulfriend now!!"

She then disappeared from his shoulder in a ribbon of shadows, returning back to her rightful owner.

"N-No it's not bad. Just uh ... it's ... the thing that you ... the time that we uh-"

Midst his stammering Voodoo came barreling in his backside, causing him to fall over and kiss Piper on the cheek anyways. Well it wasn't really a kiss, it was just his face smashing into her cheek, but Voodoo was certainly going to tell everyone it was a kiss.

And Lock was going to blush about it.

Kettil smiled at Mot, "I am glad," he managed to keep the smile even while he made a small surprised sound at Freya's smack on the bottom.

He detangled himself from Mot and then started to head out only to pause and stare over at Lock and Piper.

Mostly Lock.

There came an expression on Kettil's face and he let out a small hiss, "I am watching you boil. Sleep with your eyes open."

Then Kettil and Freya were gone out the door.

[EXIT]

"Year of the reapers, huh?" He murmured as the terrible duo finally left him be. He gave a rough sigh, feeling even more tired now. Their abundant energy was draining. The pale grim looked around for any more would be leeches, wondering if he was safe to slip away.

Shik must have had some sort of weird high between the gnome blood, what he had drank from the cider, and remaining close to Shaheen (clearly Insanity fumes off her beautiful person), because he went really out of it for a few minutes. When he came to, he looked as sharp as normal and pretended nothing had happened. "Shikoba Len," he introduced himself to the guardian, once again grinning. "A pleasure." Probably.

Said pleasure sort of muted when Lan appeared, less due to her presence (she was irritating, but he did a better job driving her up the wall personally) and more due to her apparel, which she passed around like they were meant to be good gifts. Bleh. He leaned towards Shaheen, his wings shifting. "I am growing restless."

He . . . sort of zoned through the New Years count down too, to boot, and made more faces at the disgusting things kissing.

Lock was horrified. Piper was (appropriately) pissed, and Kettil was also (appropriately) pissed.

And he hadn't done anything.

"No. I CAN'T," he growled, sticking his hand out to desummon the cat before she could put in a word of self-defense. It was harsh, but it apparently had to be done.

After an incredibly awkward moment of silence, he glumly said, "I'm sorry." This New Years had certainly been the worst one to date. "Maybe I should just go?" That sounded like the best option right now. Run away and hope that Kettil hadn't already TP'd his room.

Jove turned, slowly chewing on the spookie in his mouth when he heard Jack's voice hovering over him. Oh good, maybe they could just stay there by the spookies and not get kissed together. Maybe they-

The first kiss came as a complete surprise, and Jove had opened his mouth as if to say something in protest when Jack got his other cheek. The pup's mouth snapped closed and he just stared at the feline with an expression of shocked betrayal.

And then... the night got scarier.

A wet tongue ambushed him on his other side, and he turned his betrayal-face on Frost, and then nearly choked on his spookie as he noticed the ghoul Frost was with. That terrifying, foxfire-eating-

The pup heard his name and turned around again just in time for Victoria to kiss him on the less-violated side of his face. But he couldn't give her the puppyish 'why would you do this to me' face, from a ghoul this was only to be expected! So he tried to swallow the rest of his spookie, and offered a tail wag in greeting.

Hopefully that other ghoul wouldn't notice him, what with his back turned and all...

And then all thoughts of being eaten alive completely fled his mind. Ren was here. And with the night he was having... Ren was probably gonna kiss him too.

Yin reached out, snagging the zomboil's skeletal hand in his own, clawed fingers intertwined with slender bones, and squeezing lightly. "I would find that acceptable," Yin admitted, and might have shown more relief than he had intended. "So long as I am the first." The 'and only' was left unstated.

It was awkward to look around the room, the rampant displays of public affection causing his face, ears, and neck to flush crimson. His eyes fixated on the zomboil's chest, eyes tracing over the hand stitching on his bonded's tie. "Um, is there something else that you would prefer to do? Or do you have other duties to preform?" Or they could always just go back to his room to make good on their agreement.