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Well, Lance didn't know where to go, and Aidan had gotten real quiet, so it was up to Blossom to lead their little trio, wasn't it? With one hand around Aidan's wrist and the other around Lance's, Blossom moved rapidly up the cobbled streets. Her scarf whipped around behind her with the wind and her movements, presumably hitting Lance or Aidan on the side or face once or twice. It was what happened when you wore a scarf originally sewn for a man who stood over six feet tall, right?

Blossom scanned the nearby stalls intently, eyes narrowing just a little. Those fishing games are never any fun, you just sit there and let 'em put something on your string... maybe one of those archery things, those look--

She paused, looking ahead. Was that Alihi over there? Amara and Sue and... lots of other people, too. A few were less than familiar, including that woman with the black wings, though she could at least recognize the general appearance of most of them.

"Hey! Over there!" Blossom grinned to Lance and Aidan, then continued to drag them as she hopped right over to where Alihi was. "What's going on? Did we miss something?" Blossom looked directly to the female tactician.

[[Yaaaay for dragging other people along~ |D Esgy, at the least, is cool with this. I didn't wanna leave Aidan behind, Huey! D:]]

Before she got a response from the red-haired man, Alihi heard another familiar voice, one that she could actually connect a voice to a face to a name. Her face brightened and she waved at the approaching girl. "Blossom!"

"What's going on? Did we miss something?"

"I... don't know, actually." The tactician replied sheepishly, rubbing the back of her neck with one hand. "I was just hanging around with Amara here when I noticed Sue, and then Valter and Canas arrived, and then more and more people and then you three arrived." She explained in a half-rambling manner, turning to Lance once she was finished speaking. "I don't believe I know you... My name's Alihi." She told him with a slight nod.


Whoa... Amara blinked, staring right at Aidan. "You remind me of mommy, mister!" She exclaimed, pointer finger raised and, well, pointing in the direction of Aidan.

The focus on that was broken when the little girl noticed that Ninian was shaking her head. "Nini... is something wrong?" She asked the dancer softly, taking a few steps towards Ninian. "Are you hurt?"

Oujay walked behind Roy as they went towards the others. He looked at Miledy and Roy as they were walking. He also saw Ninian walking with them. He was still a little surprised that was his mom. "Seems like old times," he thought as he remembered those days they all traveled around the continent to stop Bern's evil doing. After a few minutes of thinking back to his past, he didn't realized that they had reached some other people.

They stopped walking as they came up to the group. He saw some familiar people who he remembered from the Easter time. He hadn't really talked to them that much, but at least he knew they were not complete strangers. However, there were some people he had never seen before and wondered who they were. He was looking at each person when he saw Sue go up and hug Roy. "Hi Miss Sue," he said to her as he greeted her.

"Lord Eliwood," he whispered to himself as he heard Sue ask about Roy's Father. He had met Lord Eliwood only a few times. Oujay always thought he was a nice and a good person. He had never talked to him though, only listened.

He noticed something was a bit wrong with Ninian. "Right," he thought, "Eliwood is her husband." He guessed something was up with her father that caused her to be a bit off. He listened to Roy's reply. "So maybe that's why she's like that," he guessed that she was in pain that they could not find him. "I hope they find him," he whispered as he worried about her and Roy.

"N-no, I'm fine," she stammered, trying to reassure Amara and Roy both. She was alright, really she was . . . not.

"I think . . . something is wrong," she said, thinking out loud, "but I'm not sure what."

She had the feeling that something was wrong, thus the headache that came with the premonition, but as for what it was . . . she didn't know. She squeezed Roy's hand, lowering her other.

Roy smiled gently. So Alihi was the tactician's name.

"Alright. Alihi it is." he said softly with a smile. He then shook his head at her question as what to call him.

"Just 'Roy' is fine. You weren't part of my group, so there's no need to call me General or Lord." he said.

He then turned his gaze to his Mother. Something was wrong? He glanced around. Everything seemed fine...but he trusted dragon intuition better than his own.

"I see...If something does happen, don't leave my side Ninian. I'll protect you." he said softly, feeling his mother squeeze his hand.

His attention was then drawn to a new voice that called his name. He turned to face the girl. He didn't recognize her immediately, but he may have met her during the morph incident around Halloween.

"Yeah...I'm Roy." he said. He then shook his head at her next question. "I just got here myself, so I have no idea what's going on either..."

He did tell her to lead the way. But he hadn't expected to be literarily dragged somewhere. He must've tripped a few times. She had led him and Aidan to a group of people discussing something. Judging by how Blossom was asking everyone what was going on, he guessed she had no clue why she went there other than curiousity.

Lance was about to say hello to the little girl Blossom was talking to, but she decided on talking only to Aidan. With his arm still outstretched to shake the girl's hand, he pulled it back quickly and flicked his hair. Getting ignored by adults is one thing, but children...makes you feel even more invisible.

Well, no matter. He squatted down to the girl's height, smiling reassuringly. "Why, hello there, little lady. I'm Lance. What's your name?"

...though not ignored, the girl turned her attention to another person in the group. Ninian, who he had met during the wedding reception (or, well, he had met her earlier, but that was the first time meeting her as a Ninian who didn't know Lance) and shared a dance with, was leaning on a miniature Eliwood. His son then, I assume. That'd make her this guy's mother.

Heh, he knew she was part dragon, but it still amazed him how she could look so young despite her age. Not that he was one to speak on that matter, but nevermind. She was looking pale and quite sick, and Lance would've offered his assistance, had he not felt a sudden throb in his head. Clutching his head subtly with one hand, he spoke up. "I know a lot of people think my only strengths are for comic relief, but I can feel it too. It..." Lance paused his quiet talking to take a whiff of the air around them. "...reeks of...trouble. I have a bad feeling that something is about to happen as well..."

Lance unhooked a batch of his Coins from his chest pocket, and kept them close at hand, while retaining a pretty normal pose as not to alert the child too much so they wouldn't scare her.

... Little Amara Kaua-Aelfgar really had focus issues. If someone or something caught her eye, she would immediately turn to that person or object, no matter what she was doing previously. After staring at Ninian for a few moments, making sure she wouldn't suddenly change her mind on how she felt, the little girl turned back to Lance. "I'm Amara Kaua-Aelfgar, sir. Alihi's daughter." She gave a slight nod towards the female tactician, pointing out that she was her mother.

Her head tilted in curiosity at the sudden change in conversation. Wrong? Bad? She looked up and down the street, as if the answer would suddenly walk out of an alleyway or something.


Alihi gave a slight nod to Roy. "Roy it is, then." The tactician frowned slightly at Ninian's words; during her... adventures in Elibe, both Ninian and Nils had helped out considerably with their abilities, including their sense of danger. This sense was fairly accurate, too. "Ninian..."
Worry hit Alihi's expression and she glanced down at Amara, hand resting on the hilt of Zelos' rapier. If something was going to happen, could she actually protect her only daughter?