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Suddenly, he felt his glasses slipping. s**t. He stopped chasing to hold onto it with one hand. But if he did that... he didn't have any more free hands to grab the pig. He dropped his crook into the mud and continued the chase. He could get that later! He had to win first.

"Ok! I've added aaaall the ingredients I added the first time I did one of these. SO, they MUST come out PERFECT." Eridia had an obsessive smile on her face and it died quickly when she saw her batch of horribly crafted mooncakes. No matter what she did, they'd come out worst that the last batch. She closed the lid quickly and gathered up all her badly made mooncakes

Suddenly, Poe had an idea. He scrambled in the mud for the discarded crook. Picking it up, he resumed the chase, and got in front of the snoutbeast. Using the crook to block the path, he managed to stop it long enough to grab. Poepoe straddled the pig and held on tight, and wrassled it into submission.

Sweaty and muddy, he took the pig back to the booth owner. "Boy, that was a bit of work, eh? I much prefer the bigger beasts. They tend to run less," he said. He accepted the prize, the stuffed snoutbeast, happily. Maneki would love it, he bet!

It was good seeing Aerona again - she was just as full of energy as he remembered. Even after wrestling a snoutbeast, she was bubbling with excitement. She was different, however; something in the way she smiled was different, and she was also much much taller.

She goaded him towards wrestling the beast. Challenged him, even. His eyes gleamed. "Do I ever," he uttered. Then he clambered over to get in line.

Just before it was his turn, he shuffled to Aerona and plucked his lusus from his hair. "Hold Pops for me." He ran back; it was his turn to wrassle.

As the beast came around, he whooped loudly and charged, grabbing hold briefly before the muck slipped it away. He fell face first into the muck, and the snoutbeast, squealing, scurried away. He rose, and began chasing. He was surprised he was as quick as he was; Aerona's workouts back in the day really did affect him. He focused in on his goal.

Adamaz gritted his teeth. He was in the moment. He was the moment. His feet dug into the mud up to mid-thigh, and he pushed off the ground with as much speed as he could manage. He moved to head the beast off, and it turned around to avoid him. Instead of losing his momentum by turning, however, Adamaz kept going - straight towards the fence.

"Parkour!" He shouted, stupidly, as he jumped onto the fence, dipping in with his legs, and then bounding away from the fence towards the snoutbeast like a rocket. He fell short of the pig, but slid on the mud straight into its chubby legs. It squealed as it lost balance in the middle of its turn, and fell on top of the child. Adamaz grunted, and flailed until he grabbed hold of one ear, and then another. As the pig rolled off of him, he rolled with it, and he was on top.

Adamaz definitely did not plan that. He'd meant to land on his feet after jumping off the fence, to keep chasing. But whatever - the beast was his! He may be small, but his weight kept the pig from rising long enough for him to be declared the winner. Huzzah!

((forgot to roll, of course, pls disregard LOL))

This was way, way harder than it looked. Nahori was used to some manual labor, picking and peeling vegetables, cleaning the hive... This was nothing like that. It was slippery and the snoutbeast was wilder than she was accustomed to dealing with. They didn't have animals back home, after all. Still, she wasn't ready to give up yet.

These new cowboy boots she'd picked out sure felt out of place on her feet now as she slipped and slid and did very little to make herself look like a real rancher. Nahori might've been embarrassed with how much time had already passed if she actually had any concept of it. As it were, the only thing on her mind now was winning. She wanted that stuffie and she wasn't going to give up. She had to keep trying!