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Her smile lifted from Mort's kindness, making a few of the roots that formed her legs coil a little in happiness, "Thank you, Mortimer. You are so kind~" she replied, "your company is just as delightful as my winged companions, I assure~" and again her smile grew more. The ghoul was thankful for such sweet acquaintances.

But the offer to hold Endy totally made her features liven right up. She stared at Kettil in semi-disbelief, overpowered with pleasure and surprise, "I.. I would love to~" she almost whispered in awe, as if it were something quite taboo to do, or accept. Her fingers gently danced along Endy's throat, petting the soft plumage there, and rubbing under her beak. Yes she was quite thankful for the comfort. Her arm lowered to imitate the same sort of perch that Kettil provided for the owl, "Thank you~ I do miss them a great deal. It feels so odd without them with me."

Rather than dwell on her own woes, she tried to push them aside, and focus on her current company, looking to Mort once more, "How have you fared with the new classes, Mortimer?" since she'd not seen him here before, she was curious to which classes he'd taken.

"Yes, did while back. Gameboil n' all," Mort reminded her with a grin."Didn't know was on trip! Hope is having good time. If want, er, could stop by Famine first; locusts friendly like moths, even if not replacement for moths. Original destination is Death too, if want come along."

Much like Kettil, he was happy to not have to introduce her, if only because he was happy the new student had known someone at all.

"Has done alright: alchemy was lovely trying, and did mounts at War with Kettil. Had, er, turtle. Interesting ride."

"Yeah! That's how I met Mort. We were in War class together, it was pretty fun. I got to ride on a wolf but I kinda let him go back to the wild, y'know? Felt funny just ridin' him around after class was done, plus I wouldn't want Endy to get jealous," Kettil laughed and Endzela just peered over at her Reaper but said nothing about it. Taking a moment to transport herself over toward Ev's 'perch' to land there climbing her way carefully more toward the shoulder so she could gently fuss at parts of Ev's hair.

Happy Owl was currently very much happy.

"Mort and I were just discussin' where we're goin' for a bit til' they straighten everything out~," Kettil informed Ev.

He glanced over at Mort, "Either place sound fine to me, I already been on Death. I went there with Ev the week before War classes."

Apparently Alexander had missed him, but he really did not deserve to be missed. Something else distracted him though and he found his attention caught on something else, the zomboil's shoulder. As he was being pushed away (thank goodness one of them still had some sense) he was trying to ascertain if the blood he had smelt was new or from the wound Alexander had mentioned earlier, fingers reaching up to try to move the fabric a bit.

Yin was still distracted when Alexander began talking, eyes drawn as if magnetically to check the stitches on his neck to ensure that they were intact. He dropped his hands down to his sides. How did he answer this while both saying nothing and telling Alexander enough that he would accept it? He was focusing on that bloody bit of shirt again. "I do not think you would want to know it if I told you, and I would prefer not to. I shall be fine though so you should not bother thinking about it."

He needed to get the conversation off of himself, and fast. "Oh is that Mort over there?" He pointed, being completely obvious about the topic change. "Perhaps we should go ensure that he is alright."

((Entering))

Riley looked at all four portals, but her decision was remarkably quick. She saw many of her friends, and some new faces, trying to decide where to go. But the answer was simple - one should go everywhere. They were allowed to go from clan to clan now, which meant a taste of every culture was her main goal. And she'd already decided that her first stop would be the only clan she had not visited, nor even heard about from others.

So she stepped into the Death Portal, clutching her small belongings, and tried not to make a fuss about her exit as she disappeared into it.

((Exit))

"Well if you haven't been to Famine yet either maybe that would be a good place to start since I just came from Conquest." Mitsu suggested. "Then we can stop by Conquest again and...if we have time." She hoped they wouldn't. "We can stop by War."

"That sounds good to me," Shun said as he took her hand, looking towards the portal that led to Famine.

"Hel, care to join? Or do you have plans to go elsewhere?"