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Mjoll's stare deadpanned when Lifen's look said this was going to suck. Mjoll already was figuring on being drowned or some other maiming going on. While Bastion, started clamoring loudly behind her about the foul beasts.

She frowned heavily, "I don't think they're real." She muttered rubbing her temples, she felt a stress headache coming on and the man behind Bastion laughing wasn't helping matters either she didn't notice her hair smacking the poor horseman in the face, "Oi, if you keep up your laughter human I will have no choice but to use your tongue in my next crafting." She threatened the man in the back of the log.

Which promptly shut him up. It probably would also gain her a restraining order, which wouldn't be much use.

There were a few bumps, and some jarring. Nothing too horrible up until the time when they started to drop a very fast rate of speed. There was a hiss and Mjoll ducked, though she felt Bastion grab at her. Had they not been plummeting to their deaths she would've pried his sorry carcass off her. Mainly because he was screaming like a little filly in her ear.

"FOR JACKS SAKE." She practically yelled when they got off that horrid ride. "Next time you cling to me and you're screaming your little heart out like a filly I'm going to cut your tongue out." She was rubbing her ears. "I think you busted my ear drum." She complained moving over to Lifen. The only good thing about the braids and flowers Mjoll had in her hair was it kept her hair from being in her face.....

Shaheen continued to tug her mostly unwilling soon to be partner in crime along, when they were suddenly approached by a woman. She could only assume it was another horseman, noting with a quick glance over that she was vaguely familiar, but beyond that having no idea who it could be. But she knew Senga's name, at least, and she was asking if she could join them.

"Of course." The chieftain gone hipster replied with a tight smile and a nod of her head. The smile itself only looked out of place because of how pained her expression was, the joy of the area straining her already frazzled nerves. "Safety in numbers."

Really it might have been better if they'd spread out to find the fluffy little beasts that were on the loose, considering how much ground they had to cover and how many places there were for them to hide in. But selfishly, Shaheen did not wish to be alone, not in this place, not with these loud and aggravating bags of flesh scurrying about with their wailing whelps in tow.

They had stopped at a long lineup, and the chieftain turned and craned herself up, then leaned to the side to try and see what the holdup was.

"I just thought it might give us a better view of the area, that a boat on the river might cover more ground then just walking." She grumped, arms coming up to cross over her chest as she finally released Senga's hand. Of course, they would be stuck in a world without wings, again. If she could just fly overhead, she was sure they would be done this ridiculous task by now.

In the distance, she could hear a sudden fanfare, and many of the humans began scurrying away, leaving the lineup and hurrying off elsewhere. Music began to blare, and she caught snippets of conversation concerning some kind of "parade" as people passed.

"I suppose if you prefer, we could try climbing a tree."

If only she knew of the giant tree house in the near vicinity, she might have done just that.

In any case, the line had just shortened significantly.

TOMORROWLAND

"Kiwi," he said in greeting to the other famine before Jay tossed him the toy. "A... material version of a minipet?" Fai asked as he looked at the toy, turning it from side to side. He looked around, seeing a little human child carrying one somewhat like it. "Ah, a scareling's toy," he said, digging through his pockets. He pulled out a small razorblade. "Shall we see what's inside, my friends?"

The razor was already slicing through the material as he asked that. Cotton and foam came out of the toy. "How... boring," he said as he dug through it and found nothing. "You would think they'd at least include a surprise."

War Adventureland

Nergui's shoulders relaxed ever so slightly as Shaheen welcomed her into the tiny group, and she returned the tight lipped smile. Her own expression nearly identical, and for the same reasons. The joy in this horrible place was pliable, and it was all the priestess could do to keep from scrubbing at exposed skin. As if that would remove the taint.

"I'm Nergui," she offered, grateful for the chance to surround herself with her own, rather then be forced to venture among the humans alone.

The line they shuffled into was given a curious look, and Neru had to agree with Shaheen. This place was huge, and from the small amount she'd seen so far, packed, as well as maze like. They'd be wandering around in circles for hours looking for whatever it was Medea had managed to lose in this place.

She too looked up as the humans began to scurry from the very line they were lingering in. Jocking for placement along either side of what was now recognizable as a street. She didn't know what a parade was, but the effect it had on the humans was intriguing. If they could harness that...

Wait, trees? "I don't climb trees." Correction, the death priestess didn't know how to climb trees. Nergui had never had wings, and there hadn't been any reason good enough to see the woman attempting to shimmy her way up the trunk of a tree. She was a priestess of death, they did not climb.

Thankfully the problem resolved itself. As soon as Senga noticed the shortened line he grabbed either mare by the elbow and steered them forward until they could climb into a boat along with a few humans. The later was giving a cold look, but she only spared them a second of attention before the colt's question pulled her back. "Good question. I wonder also how we control it?" She didn't see a wheel, or a rudder, or anything..

(( frontierland ))

Just like that her demeanor changed. Not that he could blame her, he imagined that sort of thing would be horrifying and embarrassing for a female...but it was still sad to see. Especially since it was an accident, just a bad mix of a light fabric and water.

"Sal." He repeated stubbornly. Despite what happened he wasn't going to treat her any different, it wasn't like she had meant for it to happen, so why would it change a thing? "And you're welcome, my dear. Accidents happen, no harm done." Easy for him to say, really. His thin hand once more found the top of her head, patting her wet mass of hair as he had before. Her suggestion wasn't a bad one of course, they did still have to scour the place for their mission, and once more he looked over her head to see what was still around. What he saw was...nothing sort of disturbing.

"...What do you suppose that is?" The disgust was clear in his voice, his attention locked on the colourful floats and creatures clearly headed their way.

((Adventureland-jungle cruise? whhyyyyyy))

Shaheen was heavily considering the tree climbing possibilities. She liked trees. She liked climbing them, she liked perching on them, and she didn't always use her wings to get up in them because it was much more rewarding to do it with nothing more then raw strength and muscle power.

But the other two seemed hesitant to outright disgusted with the notion, so she blinked golden eyes away from the rather tall and branchy tree she had been eyeing to look back at the other two.

"Very well then, I thin---" But there was to be no time for thinking as Senga spoke of commandeering and grabbed her by the elbow to pull her along. A small smile alighted her face at the thought of their very own boat. They could over throw the captain and the crew and sail off into the sunset!

As they leaped aboard, Shaheen shrugged her shoulders, rolling them back in an automatic motion used when stretching her wings, which at the moment were non-existent, and ignored the looks they were receiving from the humans aboard.

"I'm sure it will sail us to our destination swift and true." She proclaimed, while receiving yet more odd looks from the passengers. She was directed by the human at the front of the boat that she should sit down and she raised an eyebrow at him imperiously. Bossed around by a human? She didn't think so!

Still, it seemed they refused to begin until the three were at least "safely seated", so she grudgingly found a place to sit down.

And then the journey began.

And it was horribly, hideously slow. And the man did a lot of talking and pointing to various, obviously fake wildlife situated within the trees and bushes, while telling jokes, and the rest of the cattle laughed, and the children squealed, and Shaheen was about ready to punch several faces when something flashed out of the corner of her eye, something that bounded off into the bush. Something that was quite obviously wearing a knit sweater and was very much real.

"There it is!" She announced, standing up abruptly from her seat, and several people around her either craned around to look while the man who didn't stop talking for an instant told her to please sit back down.

And she did, grudgingly, eyes scanning the shore once more for any other hints.

"It's time. We must take the ship down." She hissed to the other two, attempting to summon her dagger to hand but finding she was unable to do so. Probably too much Joy in the air, and not enough Fear to give her the power to do so. She scowled at her empty hand, then abruptly stood up again and ran for the front of the boat, grabbing the man, the self proclaimed "skipper", and tossed him overboard with a mighty war cry.

Chaos broke loose at that point. People screaming exclamations, children crying, shouting, bustling bodies. She knocked a few more that came out of their seats to restrain her away, then climbed onto the edge of the boat and threw herself into the water herself, swimming until she reached the shore that she had caught sight of the foxfire on, and pulling herself up and out of the water.

She just assumed the other two would follow her at this point.

[ frontierland - parade ]

Ying glowered at the ground in embarrassment, her face a very severe shade of red. It wasn't the heat causing it, but she would definitely blame it on that later.

She looked up to where Salbei was gesturing, and saw a parade with ... horses? "HORSEMEN! OUR BRETHREN HAVE COME TO AID US!!!!!!" Ying was adamant that those were horsemen. Here. Come to kill everyone. "But ... why are they not moving ..."

Ying went back to Salbei. "S-Salbei, we must help them! They are paralyzed ... or ... or ..."