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As Nils was bombarded by the crowd, FD lost track of him for but a minute before locating him once again. He made eye contact with the bard and smiled. Pushing his way through the herd of Learanians, he closed the distance between the two until he was by the bard's side. "Kaoru!" he greeted Nils, embracing him for a moment. "This celebration is just wonderful! Although I hope you didn't have to work too hard to prepare it. Is there anything you want to do?" FD admired the bard and thought to himself how surprised Nils would be at what FD had in store for him at some point, and hopefully happy.

Nils, quickly flipping the microphone off, returned FD's embrace. "Hikaru! I'm glad you like it!" He continued to grin. "It took a while to get all the lights up, but it really wasn't too difficult! As for anything I'd like to do? Uhm..." The bard paused for a moment. What did he want to do? He wasn't even sure. There was so much to do that he couldn't even choose just one thing! "... Anything's alright with me, Hikaru." He finally replied.

Leon rolled his eyes at the statement. Chickenwire still kind of gives me funny looks, though. "That 'un does that to all our recruits. I dunno if he's tryin' to scare 'em into obeyin' us, or just tryin' to drive 'em away..."

To be honest, he too thought that Chickenwire's gazes were a bit harsh... even despite his experience. The knight all the while had no idea what to make of Jin. He never met him before. "Hello there, sir." he said, the only formal speech left after 7 years of street accents rolling around his ears. "My name is Leon... I'm a Lieutenant of the Watch."

"Um..." Sue smiled, it being her first time seeing Jin as well. She bowed politely. "And I'm Sue of the Kutolah... daughter of the crewmember Rath. It's a pleasure... sir..." she got up from bowing in a moment's notice.

{Too lazy to switch accounts...}

Victoria overheard news of one of her fellow bishops, Rhys. She couldn't help but eavesdrop, the conversation was right there behind her to listen to after Nino's speech got done. The rest of the crew weren't talking... she was surprised.

Pleasantly surprised to see all the love around her. "Rhys is still on duty? Why... I requested off today. I do hope it's not my fault..."

"I don't think its yer doin' Miss." Leon answered her with a polite tone as possible. "That Rhys... he's a hard-workin' healer. He wouldn't take a break even if they asked 'im, I bet." His attention shifted to Jin after he asked about the Lieutenant's own injury. "My leg? 'Tis fine now. Had some good healin' time. I can ride Anri again if I need."

"It sounds like him." Sue chuckled to herself, thinking of how much harder Rhys worked than any of them... the Host Club, the healers... he outdid them in the diligence department for sure. She envied his dedication, almost. "Amelia... maybe we should pay him a visit then. Make him take a break."

[[Ahhh. All right.]]

Amelia gave a one-shouldered shrug and adjusted her grip on her spear. Chickenwire definitely was a hard man to read, but he didn't seem to have anything truly against her, so Amelia wasn't too worried. Just as long as he kept that damn piano wire away from her throat.

She nodded once to Jin as he spoke up, relaxing. The Watch was male-dominated, but it wasn't sexist. And knowing that Rhys had been talking about her... her heart warmed a little. It was good to know someone thought that well of her own abilities.

Amelia nodded to Jin again, thinking of how hard Rhys had to work as the leader of the medical crew. There were a lot of injured and sick people around town, even when things hadn't gone to hell in a handbasket. Normal injury, normal illness, that sort of thing. She let her thoughts drift to the two of them until Sue's words snapped her from her reverie.

"Hm? Well, he's probably off on a house call... I don't know where he'd be if he's not in his headquarters."

"Er, hi, Lance!"

Aidan rubbed his nose gingerly--Lance had made him land on his face. He was lucky he hadn't broken anything; sure, Blossom had done that once before, too. But she wasn't a fully grown man, she was a compact little loli swordswoman. Which REALLY made all the difference.

He felt the grip on his arm grow a bit tighter and glanced down at Blossom. "I-I was!" He pointed at the stuffed...whatever it was. The booth's owner snickered.

"So, kid," the man said, "you're gonna play? You gotta pay." He held out his time-worn, calloused hand; Aidan deposited a pair of gold coins into his palm.

"I have to shoot this into the targets, right?" asked Aidan, rolling between his fingers the feathered red dart that the man had traded for his coins. Five more lay on the counter in a neat row, ready to be launched at the wall behind the man.

He nodded his balding head. "Yup. Get a bullseye and you win."

Amelia considered this. If they left a message, they could depart and wait for him somewhere. "Well, if I write up a message, Sue, could you drop it off there? Since you have a horse, you can arrive there and back much faster than I could. And I don't have any experience riding a horse."

Blossom smiled wide and leaned against his arm, careful to have not claimed his dominant arm. "Good luck!" she chirped, looking over to the dartboard with curious eyes. Would he get it? She sure hoped so...

Amelia thought this over. "Just tell him that he can stand to take at least an hour away from work to spend time with us... mention who's being referenced. You, Leon, Victoria, and I."

Victoria's interruption, following Leon's comment, made Amelia's face turn bright red. "We-Well," she started, then fell silent. They hadn't actually done anything like that yet; Renault was likely to come after Rhys with a rusty carving knife if they tried to consummate their relationship before the marriage ceremony.

"Ju-Just tell him that we want him to be here, at least for a little while. Please?" Amelia asked Sue once she'd calmed sufficiently.