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Mel carefully slips her hand into Boaz's as she smiles to him "It wasn't too hard to find, though I will admit I was also just looking for you." she pauses as she thinks for a moment "I saw a booth selling some Hunger Game items I would really love to get a hold of." she wasn't going to deny she love the book series and may have one or two items hidden in her closet.

"And if anything comes up, you can just leave me then come find me afterwards. I promise I won't get into too much trouble while your gone." she teases as she pulls him towards the Hunger game Booth. Her eyes light up as she looks over the different items, not all that sure what she wanted.

"I'm just tempted to buy one of each." she turns to look at Boaz "What do you think?"



Cora turns, only to frown for a moment as she see Mathias "Wait...this is what you had to do today? Had I known, I would have come with you baby.." she moves over to him, wrapping her arms around him as she leans up to press her lips to his for a moment before she pull back to place her hand on his cheek "I'm glad you got a chance to see this costume. One of my friends finished it just last night for me." pulling away from him, she gives a twirl before she heard a couple other voices call out Mathias's name.

Turning, she step to Mathias's side as she leans against him some. The girl seem familiar but she couldn't put her finger on where she seen her before. She didn't have a clue as to who the young man was though. Keeping quiet, she glance around as she spots a couple booths she was planning on checking out later.

"Kiku..." Qiuyue took the single bloom as soon as it was offered to her, instinctively lifting it to her nose so that she could sniff at it tentatively before admiring the luscious colour of the tightly clustered petals that made up the flower itself. "They're beautiful. Are they easy to maintain in general?"

She really really liked the image that came to her mind with the flower tucked into her braids. Perhaps she could even get herself two if her funds allowed. She made no mention of her intent to purchase the flower she still held or the plant it came from or neither however, hoping to learn more about it from the florist as a pensive look crossed her face next.

Mathis chuckled and kissed Cora back, before taking a moment to really appreciate the work that had gone into her costume. "I like it, Cora-bug, you'll have to wear it tonight when I get home..." He winked at her and playfully smacked her on the rear. Before shaking his head. "I thought you had a LARP all this weekend, did it get canceled?"

This made things complicated, but when she stepped into him and leaned against him, he allowed his arm to wrap around her waist and keep her close to him. If he had his way he wouldn't let her out of his sight the rest of the Con. God forbid she pick up one of the energy draining items. He was between a rock and a hard place though - because he couldn't tell her what was good and what was bad without having to explain things he'd rather not.

When Delilah and Quenton showed up, he chuckled and waved at them both. "Hey! Delilah, Quenton," he nodded to both in turn. "Fancy meeting you both here, you together?" He left the question open ended - but he didn't mind his second cousin dating Quenton if that was the case, he was good people.

"This is my girlfriend, Cora. Cora, Delilah. Delilah, Cora. Cora, Quenton. Quenton, Cora. Delilah is my second cousin, you remember her from the last family reunion?" He said as he motioned to Delilah first.

"Quenton's another art student at DCU - he actually did me a solid and snagged me some lunch the day after you and I got back together, he's good people." He nodded to Quenton in turn.

"Ah, yeah, I'm actually not getting paid - it's volunteer work for my MMA Circuit Team. It's part of giving back to the community." He said. It was a complete fabrication of course - but it explained EVERYTHING.

"Like hell." The blonde pouted. "I don't understand you half the time as it is. I wouldn't understand any of- wait what? You're ditching us? Seriously? Me, of all people, in this.... thing. Just curious but are you trying to kill me?" Lance groaned. The blonde glared daggers at Caitlyn as Alistair dragged him away. "...Oh hush, you could have warned me she was going to do this too..." Glancing around at all the costumes and people made Lance twitch again. "So... too late to mention I've never done this before?? Also uh... I have no clue who this character is or what he does..."

Delilah had two surprises come in one sentence. The first was that Quenton liked her outfit. It meant alot to her coming from a man who's work she admired. The second was that Quenton knew her cousin. She knew Destiny City was pretty small, especially when it came to the White Family but it still was surprising to the girl.

"Quenton!" Delilah smiled at him sweetly when she felt his presence and heard his voice from her side. She had been impressed by his work and now she had to admit the costume suited him. "It's great to see you again. Sadly no I don't have a booth. I don't know how I would handle it with so many people. And I'll admit to you," She did a quick turn for the trio and gave a 'modest' shrug. "This is my first attempt at a costume. I wanted to see what people thought and maybe next time offer my services to others who can't sew."

Before forgetting, she glanced back and smiled sweetly at Cora. "Cora! I wouldn't have guessed that was you. That outfit looks great. I'm sure this one things so as well." She smirked and nodded towards Mathias. "And no Mathias. Quention and I met at a Jewelry Expo. He has an amazing talent for things. I'm honestly going to be surprised if he tells me he doesn't have a booth here."

That was when she looked back at Cora and offered another smile."How have you been since then? Keeping this one in line?"

"I meant about this..." Lance said, gesturing to the con. "Of course you think it's fun.. You're use to throngs of people and being someone else. I'm not." Lance tried not to turn a remarkable shade of red at Alistair's little jest. Tried, mind you, does not mean he succeeded. "Cait's done that before. Made me sit down and marathon a series or two."

Cait perked up when her phone buzzed with a text, fishing it out of her pants pocket - she'd opted for white jeans for her uniform, for convenience. It was Mei, and she hummed cheerily. "I'll meet you by the registration desk!" she texted back, trotting off in that direction as she tucked her phone back away.

It took a little longer than she'd expected, because someone asked her to pose for a photo and of course three other people had to get shots too, but she made it back to the registration area.

"You'll get the hang of it," Ali said, "and if we need to take a people break, I'm sure we can find a quiet corner." He gave in and moved his hand to squeeze Lance's comfortingly. "It's worth watching, for all the blood and gore and such. We'll probably see other cosplayers from the series, too."

Marlin looked up from his study of the menu at the mushroom-top wearing teen's voice, mentally still leaning towards asking the blue-haired woman in the lavender apron whether he could have a bit of both the ramen and the rice dumplings as he looked in the teen's direction.

"Thank you" he said with a smile in response to the teen's compliment of his chosen outfit, adding cheerfully "And today I am." Well actually it would have been more accurate to say this afternoon he was an elf since he'd been dressed up as a pirate earlier while on duty at the shop. He sketched a bow, continuing once he had straightened "But I'm otherwise known as Marlin."