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The people were slowly streaming in now. Isi watched them all from where he sat behind the counter, checking the cash box and that he still had the cash box key around his wrist. Earlier on in the day, Eiry had innocently taken the key and was using it as a weight in the trap he was attempting to make. Isi had searched the grass on his hands and knees for fifteen minutes until Eiry floated over, asking Isi how to tie a square knot around the key he had been looking for. As a precaution, Isi had put the key on a string that he now had tied around his wrist. There was no way he was going to lose the key. Not this time, when the Lab really needed help.

Looking up, Isi caught sight of his adopted big brother walking by and Rivener too. They both waved at each other, gave a smile that communicated more than words could say, and went on with their business.

Leaning back, more relaxed now that the festival was starting, Isi took a moment to enjoy the day. It was a nice calm blue with all sorts of clouds in the sky. A nice temperature ... Isi realized how calm he was. He hadn't been this relaxed for a while. Ever since Aphismet and Rivener came into the picture, and Eiry for that matter, things have just been less stressful. No more old drunken ladies, no more being forced to clean ... Just family and dealing with Eiry. And Eiry was not as much to handle as taking care of Old Maasi.

Life was good with Aphi, Riv, Beau, Munchies, and dear innocent ...

"Eiry?"

Isi leaned up from the chair and spun around, looking for Eiry. Speaking of which, he had not seen him since he gave him the death glare...

"Eiry!"

"Yeah?" came the reply from the side of the booth.

Relieved that the ghostly raevan hadn't flown from the booth, Isi relaxed."Eiry, what are you doing?" he quipped, trying to lean up so he could see what his charge was up to, "I told you, no trick-play here!"

"I'm not trick-playing," came the defensive remark from Eiry as he lifted himself up from the side of the booth. He definitely wasn't trick-playing. What he actually done was that he had taken a shirt from one of the boxes and he had just finished slipping it over his head. Now he was adding a 'I <3 Lab 305' pin onto the front and he had already fitted a 'I <3 Lab 305' hat over his minty locks. Now he was a living advertisement. Floating slowly over to Isi, Eiry asked distractedly, "Isi? Can you help put this on?" He was having trouble with the pin.

Isi smiled and fondly rolled his eyes, the way that parents would roll their eyes when their child came back covered in mud with a smile plastered on his face. He beckoned Eiry over to him and reached out to take the pins from Eiry's deathly cold hands, "Sure sure. Now watch, so you can learn..."

Eiry tucked his head to his chest, watching as Isi weaved the shirt around the needle and snapped the needle back behind a metal snag. Now, his outfit complete for the best advertising potential he could muster, Eiry boasted his chest, "Thanks, Uncle Isi!"

With a wobble and a whirl of his arms, Eiry straightened himself out and moved himself out to the front of the booth so people would be more likely to see him and help raise funds for the Lab.

Still stalking back and forth between the stalls, Niksia was distracted but alert in her own way. She was aware that more people were arriving, though the brief glances she gave them didn't spark any real recognition. Once she had time to mingle with various people she'd remember a face or a name she would have seen before.

Her trousers were making her quite warm, but for her that was a pleasant sensation. For the time being. Loosening the scarf from around her face, making her distinct changes of expression easier to see, Niksia tried to see if any of the stalls were ready yet. It was this timely look that made her notice the mint colored Raevan now floating at a stall, wearing a t-shirt??

'Plushie!' After her faint and bizarre uttering Niksia covered her mouth briefly. What she meant was the plushie now guarding her bed at home, the Raevan she was looking at was the same one it had been modeled on. Well then!

Treading to the stall in a casual manner, she coughed softly before smiling at the mint Raevan and tilting her head.

'Hi there, are you running this stall today?'

Adjusting her blue bikini top and shades, Ebony wandered away from the other patrons of this event. It wasn't that she was purposely avoiding them it was just that Ebony was always prone to going against the crowd. She hated trying to look at something at a crowded booth, too hard to hear the vendor and whatnot.

Her wandering brought her to booth being run by two boys. Well at least she figured it was two boys as she wasn't quite sure about the green-ish one. She lightly flicked at some of her hair, silently cursing to herself about it as she viewed the items laid out for this booth. Yes it was nice weather to have your hair down, but hers always seemed to get in the way.

Jae Eun bounced excitedly in the sun, dragging her boyfriend by the arm towards the Festival.

"Oi~ C'mon! I told you it would be fun!!" she pouted, swinging his arm back and forth.

"A'ight, I'm coming already!!!" Junsu, the unfortunate boyfriend, answered back, pinching her shoulder in retaliation.

Entering the fair, that familiar glint of excitement came up in her eyes as she took in the sites around her. Glancing at Jun again, she frowned, he was dressed in dark colors, true to his image as a rocker boy, his red-highlighted black hair flashing in the sun.

"Idiot." she muttered, the sun catching on her lilac summer dress, complete with cute ribbon-lace-up shoes. Without really pausing, she decided their first destination.

"Let's go and get something to eat and drink!"

Weaving through the crowd, the young couple managed to find their way to the refreshment booth, and Jae, surprisingly, recognized the two figures floating there.

"Oh! Oppa! Look, that one's Lazarus, and the other one is Rivener." she said, pointing them out.

Sliding up to the menus, they pored over the selections, side by side. After some discussion, Jun went to get drinks, and Jae stayed to take care of food.

Giving a shy grin to Lazarus, she held up two fingers. "Two Italian shaved ices, please!"

Jun, on the other hand, approached Rivener's counter cooly and calmly, "Two waters, ah...Rivener, was it?"

Niksia chuckled lightly, the green Raevan certainly was cheerful. She thought she might have seen him at the birthday party, at a great distance, or was it the other green one? Oh! The other had a horn, they were both there. Shame she hadn't spoken to them before.

'Guardian?' She queried thoughtfully, the term owner seemed a little strange to Niksia. Again a faint memory knocked for attention, was it a dark haired guardian that had first used the term to explain the Raevans to her?

'And yes, I would like to buy something to help.' Her tone was bright and cheerful, paling in comparison to the other half the conversation.

'Let me see... T-shirts... Balloons... Quite a lot to choose from!'

Cocking her head slightly to listen to Isi explain to the other woman at the stand about the event, Niksia nodded thoughtfully. Ah, that's what happened to the lab. She put a lightly scarred fingertip to her lips as she pondered, looking at the items for sale with a distant gaze.

'Yeah, lots of words to say the same thing. Mean something a little different to everyone, but the idea is the same. Guess I'll have to come back again when everything else is on sale.'

Looking up to smile at Eiry, not that she'd had the decency to know his name or his guardian's yet, she let the corners of her eyes crinkle in amusement.

'I'll take a balloon and a shirt just now then.' She fumbled under her long dress top for her purse.

"Indeed," she commented smoothly from the nearby bench towards the elf-creature. Watery. Sea-elf? She smiled. Oh well, never met one of those. He didn't seem to comment otherwise about her form. Usually it is a jaw drop that would signify a speedy departure.

Really, have you ever seen a gargantuan golden dragon sit so daintily upon a bench? Yeah, that was her magic working to cover that fact up. Its about the only thing she could do left since entering Gaia. Not a bad trade off to get away from earth.

"Oh, of course we can have drinkss. Drinks." She pardoned herself towards Josh, "Something tasty, yes? Would you like to join us?" Revanica resisted to add in fishboy as she aimed the question, but that was rude. She thought she was better than that. Even to lower-life forms.

Revanica leaned her body forward to get up, she seemed to glide gracefully. Sinewy really and preceeded to go towards the booth with a line. Her order was already memorized as she spotted the menu: Pink Lemonaide and a hot dog. Meat was meat weather or not it was cooked.

Ebony did her best not to laugh out loud at the other boy of whom she was assuming, since she'd never been officially told, was one of the Raevans of this Lab 305. Yet, she did manage a small smile of which she couldn't help because the minty Raevan was quite adorable in that little kid sense. Seeing as they were busy with another actual paying customer, Ebony gave a slight wave to the vendors and start off to see the rest of the event.