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The Seedling shook it's body in a manner that appeared to be a 'no'. A short wriggle and the thing made a whiny, almost groaning noise before making another noise. "Gurr... Gurrow... Grow..." It looked at the woman blankly, staring her right in the eye.

Apparently, he needed to grow.

Bright Sun, warm sand, and a nice breeze going were what associated the Island of Gambino with pleasure in Damions mind. It was a tropical paradise like no other with the vices of mankind running rampant all about without any concern for decency or even a hint of modesty, leaving a gourmet to sample and test each thing before falling full into it. The beach held wonders abound of the human body and the nonhuman alike, while the bustling city teemed with a different kind of life all its own. It never ceased to amaze the islander that so many people could congregate in one area with no other purpose but to live and let live without being at one anothers throats constantly.

It wasn't often he came to Gambino, wandering aimlessly through the crowded sidewalks and dodging the occasional self-powered vehicle, but when he did Damion liked to drink it all in. The sun warmed his bare upper torso while the hot pavement burned his feet to calluses, the only bit of clothing being a pair of cargo shorts that hung low on his hips and earned him no small bit of stares from the female quarter despite this being common place. The smells of the crowd assaulted his nose with their varied textures and intensities and threatened to overwhelm him with their potency. He felt exhilarated and alive in this hotbed of life and tried to keep his primary mission in mind.

This mission was simple, find his friends, and find the mall they had agreed to meet at, which wasn't very hard at all. His feet seemed to be leading him there of their own will and with abit of effort the hydra extracted himself from the crowd to stand abit off from the mall entrance, watching the flow of the people as if it were a river.

Stephen would approach Raven, practically waltzing through the crowd with a smile on his face. It had been a long time since he had gotten out and just spent time with his friends with little purpose other than the mundane aspects of life that he was rather excited.

"Hello Rae dear! How are you this fine day? Have you seen lizard breath about? I hear he wanted to take us shopping." He playfully poked fun at Damion, whom he hoped was in earshot. The sun was warm and the sky was bright.

The women weren't bad to look at either.

Stephen would casually plop down next to Rae and wait for their third party member to show up. All things considered, today was going to be a good day.

Raven smiled and leaned her shoulder against Stephen's, using him as a temporary backrest. She had that lazy movement to her like a reptile basking on a hot rock at the moment, she loved these hotter climates... she could just stretch out in the middle of the desert and nap the day away... even if she couldn't get drunk on the heat like Sunny, she still had enough of him in her blood to love being warm.

"Mmmmm, and the arrival of our fearless leader is upon us...I wonder if he has any candy in his pockets...." xd She grinned a hello to Damion, flicking the water off her fingertips at him in a mock salute.

Damion laughed at Ravens mock salute, presenting one of his own with a lazy flip of his hand before ticking it off in a mock suicide headshot. That was something else he'd seen people do and the notion of it amused him greatly. He didn't have any candy to give her as it probably would have melted in his pockets had he any to give, a gooey lumpen mass of mint and chocolate and whatever else he may have in his pockets. His expression turned quizzical when Stephen simply pointed in the air as he turned his eyes to his other friend. Was there a bird? Should he move? Curiousity bid him to look skyward and the airship dropped his jaw in amazement.

" It's huge! How did you get it to stay up there? Are there hundreds of birds in there? One really big one?"

The concept of technology that advanced was lost on the slowly burdgeoning mind of the elemental, given that Gaia had little to nothing in the way of airports or aerovehicular travel. He couldn't help but wonder how Stephen had managed to get it and how he himself could go about getting one for his own uses, perhaps in a smaller size, and a different color. But now there was a question to his energy! That required an answer right?

Damion chose instead to ignore the question in its entirety and instead just smiled wide and waited for a response to his questions. They would be far more interesting than his reply would be anyways.

Stephen nodded in support of Raven's statement. "Yeah, we've gotten pretty good and working with nature to do things that wouldn't be normally possible. Some people look at it as harnessing the power and making it do what we want, but I prefer to think of it as a tandem cooperative... force... thingy..." The usually well spoken man stumbled a bit to figure out the words for what he was trying to say, to no avail. "At any rate, I don't care too much either way, as long as it works."

He yawned and stretched again. "So, Gambino's not really my stomping grounds. What shop are you dragging us to? And beyond an excuse to hang out, why do you think we need new clothes, hm? Do you want to watch us get naked, is that it?" The man would look up at his friend from his resting place and coyly wag his finger. "Honestly, if that was it, I'm sure all you had to do was ask. With the exception of Trogdor, I'm pretty sure we're all quite comfortable with each other here."

He would pat the man on the shoulder, not sure if he would even quite get the fact that he was having his chain yanked, but it didn't matter. The sun was shining, friends were around - it was a good day. "At any rate, I suggest once we're done that we all get some cold drinks. Nothing like a refreshing glass of something at the beachfront, right?"

As he finished his sentence, he would spread his arms in a manner that said "I am at your disposal". He was smiling contently - today was going to be a lot of fun.