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He was just about to exert his new frustraition upon his booth, fists clenched, ice slowly beginning to trail over the sign that informed everyone that this was a "Kiss or Die" booth. Something, however, caught his eye, and he was even more pleased when he heard a familiar voice speaking his name.

Roux looked up to see Rivener coming towards him, a lazy smirk spreading across his features. "Yes, to Roux me." Rivener couldn't possibly stay away for too long, it was obvious. Even with the need to have a 'little brother' the other Raeven had found his way back to the Ice Frei.

This pleased him very much.

He let his hair fall over his face slightly, platinum strands barely hiding the clear blue of his eyes as he stared out between them, lips pouting down in a mock frown. He was pleased, but he was also bored. Roux floated out from behind his booth, wings giving a small flutter as though they intended to take him airborn rather than just forward, before laying still like battered flags. He stopped a few feet in front of Rivener.

"....Bored." The word was carefully thought of and worded before spoken.

Roux looked dubiously at the Tunnel of Love that Rivener was pointing too. It looked tacky.. and ugly. Why would he want to go in there? He frowned, giving a small sigh as he shifted to move his arm from Rivener's touch - it wasn't that he didn't enjoy it to a degree.. he just.. didn't enjoy being touched so much. Besides, the motion was absent minded, and held no meaning behind it.

He looked around at the other things to do.. more kissing booths, definatly a no. Refreshments had that 'little brother' by it, not to mention, Roux noticed with a cold flare of rage, Gage. For a moment he seemed almost like he wanted to attack the green Frei before he turned his head to the side, eyes closing stubbornly.

He wanted to be as far away from that hideous abomination as possible. Roux began floating toward the Tunnel of Love, assuming Rivener would follow. He stopped beside one of the gaudy swan shaped boats... was he supposed to get IN it?

He gave a short, suffering sigh and moved to 'sit' in the boat on the far side, actually hovering a few inches above the seat. He glanced over with annoyance to Rivener, looking down at the space beside him expectantly.

Rivener indeed followed, after having watched Roux look around and obviously come to roughly the same conclusions about things as he had. The one mystery (because with Roux, there was always a mystery) was the Frei's reaction to someone over by the refreshments... Riv glanced over, but there were too many people crowded together, he couldn't tell which one had angered Roux so much.

Riv smiled as he "sat" next to Roux in roughly the same fashion. Once both were ready, the boat lurched into motion. For a moment, Rivener wondered how the thing knew to start moving... Ah, well.

"I hope this won't suck," Rivener muttered mostly to himself.

The little swan boat curved towards the entrance of the Tunnel of Love, and as the fake plastic "cave doors" opened to let them in, the plastic cherub near the entry opened its mouth to laugh, letting out a definately witchy-sounding cackle.

...This was certainly not a good start.

An elegant eyebrow curved upward at the sound of fake laughter and Roux sighed as they entered the faintly red and pink lit tunnel. The doors slid closed behind them and they started forward at a less than smooth pace.

Well... they were here now and it was still rather boring. Roux shifted a little in the seat, shoulder brushing against Rivener's. It was very close sitting.

They turned a corner and the doors behind them clanked shut. Music started, slow and warped at first, quickly speeding up to a sickeningly sweet, cheerful tune.

'I love you, you love me, let's sit up in the happy tree where we can be K-I-S-S-I-N-G! Love, love, love it makes the world turn 'round!'

Roux grit his teeth, staring blankly at the smiling moving plywood cutouts jerkily leaning toward each other, a man and a woman, to kiss. Fake white doves hung from strings, being blow by a fan. A mysterious black shape wavered and bounced along with them, it's wings large and webbed.

Beside Rivener the ice Frei gave an actual -shiver- of disgust.

Eiry looked up with confusion at his big brother and hugged the doll closer to him. The frown wasn't that usual mocking big brother frown, so Eiry had no clue how to react. He looled down at his Laz plushie and then back up at his brother. Maybe he wanted to give it a hug too. Reaching up, Eiry went to push the plush doll into Rivener's arms but he got distracted and wandered away. Knitting his brows, Eiry hugged the doll back to his chest and then turned his attention back to the flowers. It was only when Eiry realized that Riv went to Roux again did the minty raevan notice. Frowning, Eirdirsceol hugged the Laz plushie tighter and tried to wibble wobble after them. They didn't notice him as they entered the tunnel and Eiry followed along hopefully. Maybe they would both like to hug the Lazzie plushie.

Tyson frowned, disappointed he wouldn't go for a fly. Rivener looked so strong! Surely he could carry him....

Lillian nudged her little brother able to tell he was bummed. She smiled down at him trying to make him feel cheery again. "Come on...if you flew with him then what would be the point of you creating the first jet pack? Hmmm? Besides, you're going to be a superhero one day! You'll be able to fly on your own by then."

Tyson laughed recalling the invention he hoped to build and his future job,"Yeah! You're right!"

Lillian nodded to him then looked back to Aphismet, "So you live out in the boons? Nope...you're right. We don't go there. But--"

As soon as Aphismet mentioned the park Tyson lunged at the man. Lillian stopped to watch her brother, hoping Aphismet wouldn't mind the boy's actions.

"Yes!! Yes! Yes! The park! You can meet Marmaduke! He pulls me around in my sled! He's HUGE too! Lillian! Can we? Can we go to the park with them? I wanna play in the snow! We can build forts! And have snowball fights! And make snowmen!! Come on! Please! Please!" Tyson wailed hugging Aphismet's legs, his pleading eyes targeted on his older sibling.

Lillian looked to Aphismet and sighed. There was no way out of this, Tyson was determined to go. Seeing it was a loosing battle if she said no, Lil nodded to the boy. Her eyes going back to Aphismet, hoping she wasn't blushing. 'Just play it cool Lil...dont sound too happy!'"Well...if you don't mind. We haven't been to the park in awhile. It would be nice to go spend some time there."

Aphismet Ooomphed and nearly tipped over as his legs were tackled by the Human Cupcake. He laughed out loud and petted the boy's head again, listening to his chattering happily. "Of course I don't mind," Aph said to the pair. "I wouldn't have offered it if I didn't mean it," he said.

Although, he probably would have offered it even if he didn't mean it, since he was too polite not to, the man thought. Ah well, hopefully the others don't know this.

He grinned. "Not today, though," he said. "It's late, and I have to stay here and watch over my little brother and the Raevans. They'll probably be at the park too!" Aph said, looking down at the boy. "My little brother Isi is older than you, but I think you'll like him. He has a Raevan too, called Eiry! He's all minty green, have you seen him? We also have Rivener of course, and there's a singing whale, too. What kind of pet is Marmaduke?" Aph suddenly asked.